How I Learned What It Means To Be Italian My parents were immigrants from the province of Salerno, Cilento, in southern Italy. They came from two different small villages at the top of a mountain, San Mauro and Galdo. My father arrived in Paterson, NJ when he was sixteen and went back to Italy to …
With the passing of Italian Americana co-founder, Dr. Bruno A. Arcudi, the Italian-American community has lost a prominent scholar and educator. Born June 9, 1923 in Westport, CT, Arcudi was the son of Italian immigrants Carmelo and Mary (Passa ume) Arcudi. He graduated from Staples High School in 1941 and then from Yale in 1944 …
We are pleased to announce that the journal’s Poetry Editor, Maria Terrone, has recently been published in the Valparaiso Poetry Review. Her work, “Rothko’s Grave,” can be found on the Review’s website: http://www.valpo.edu/valparaiso-poetry-review/2017/05/22/maria-terrone-rothkos-grave/.
The Beloved Ghosts of Compiano Italy, sweet Italy, and the ghosts the very thought of it evokes. They came from Compiano, in the region of Parma, my grandfather and my grandmother, nonno e nonna, back some 120 years ago. First Giuseppe—Joe—age 25, in 1896, then Giulia, with their one-year-old son, Primo, the following year. They …
Reflections on Immigration, Identity, and Poetry I’m thinking about immigrants and immigration right now, as every day it seems one of the presidential candidates is calling for building a huge wall, deporting illegals, raising our quotas, etc. etc. And yet, indigenous Americans aside, didn’t we all come from somewhere else? And wasn’t it a huge …
Beginnings I was weaned on stories. My grandmother would repeat tales of her childhood in Italy, of her prophetic sister who died there during the Spanish Flu epidemic, of their crossing in the winter of 1919 on the ship that almost sank in the middle of the Atlantic, of her early years in New York …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor1 Notes on Contributors5 Articles Protection of Italian Laborers on U.S. Soil:Proposals of a Federal Anti-Lynching Law and Relations Between Italy and the United States/ Patrizia Fama Stahle11 Alien Enemy M68-279: The Unresolved Case of Vincenzo Beltrone/ Roslyn Bernstein27 Poetry Featured Poet Anne Marie Macari, Essay: Beginnings39 Train41 Alligator42 …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor123 Notes on Contributors127 Articles Il Cittadino on Fascism: The Response of the Greater Youngstown, OH Italian Americana Community to Mussolini’s Rise to Power/ Ryan Antonucci133 Fictionalizing Carlo Tresca: Jerre Mangione’s Night Search/ Francesca de Lucia143 Dangers in Imagining Italy and Italians: John Fante’s Fantasy and Films/ Dennis Barone151 …
Table of Contents Letter from the Editor1 Notes on Contributors3 Articles Memories of Work and Definition of Community: The Making of Italian Americans in the Mahoning Valley/ Donna M.DeBlasio & Martha I. Pallante9 Opera as a Nationalistic Weapon: The Erection of the Monument to Giuseppe Verdi in New York City/ Stefano Luconi37 Poetry Featured Poet …