Month: November 2019

Ned Balbo

Ned Balbo

“The Song I Sing and the Book I Read”: Becoming Italian American In “My Father’s Music” (Our Roots Are Deep with Passion: Creative Nonfiction Collects New Essays by Italian-American Writers, Other Press, 2006), I examined the history of my adoptive father Carmine’s favorite songs and performers, plus the reasons why, prior to my teen years, …

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Volume XXXV No. 2 Summer 2017

Volume XXXV No. 2 Summer 2017

Table of Contents Letter from the Editor  107 Notes on Contributors  111 Articles “That’s Your Uncle? He’s White!” “Yeah, A Long Time”: Negotiating Whiteness in the Rocky/Creed Series Stephen Hock  117 White Ethnic Racial Backlash and Black Millennial Counter-narrative: Intersections of Race and Masculinity in Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Series and Ryan Kyle Coogler’s Creed Jessica …

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Volume XXXVI No. 1 Winter 2018

Volume XXXVI No. 1 Winter 2018

Table of Contents Letter from the Editor  1 Notes on Contributors  3 Articles A Calabrian in Minnesota: The Tales of James Mancina Matthew Reza  9 Dual US-Italian Citizenship: New World Italians Come Full Circle Susan Perri  29 Interviews Stephen Sartarelli Carla Simonini  45 Poetry Ned Balbo Essay, “The Song I Sing and the Book I …

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Volume XXXVI No. 2 Summer 2018

Volume XXXVI No. 2 Summer 2018

Table of Contents Letter from the Editor v Notes on Contributors ix Articles The Delivery of Mussolini’s Rings in Rhode Island: A Collaboration between Catholic Priests and Italian Fascist Officials Valeria Federici 121 Membranza Sì Cara e Fatal: Verdi’s “Va, pensiero” as an Icon of Italian Culture from the 1850s to the Present Date Stephanie …

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