Fascism, Anti-Semitism, and the Italian Novel in California
As Italian Liberation Day approaches every April 25th, the editorial pages of Italy’s…
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Jim Crow and Italian Immigrants in the American West
The 1920s saw the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the West, especially in Colorado…
Sicilian Ruins: Resurrecting Poggioreale
In a June 2012 editorial in a local Piedmont newspaper on the earthquake in…
Rome, Eataly Fresh Pasta and Concupiscent Curds
In his recent effort to return to power, former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi said…
Re-Imagining Southern Italy Part II, Calabria
As we crossed the Strait of Messina, I suppose I had pretty much reconciled…
A History of Light – Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers
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Baldassare Forestiere’s Underground Gardens
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La Storia Nascosta
In the unusual spelling of my family name lies a significant aspect of North American…
Italian Immigration and Its Continuing Influence on the Structure and Culture of North American Society
In the fall of 1999, I began offering a course in North American Italian literature.…
Italian Americans and Italian American Cultural Power
Shortly after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison said that the…