Christopher Columbus

Terzo e ultimo articolo di una serie

You can make film after film and T.V. show after T.V. show focusing on every negative stereotype and caricature of Italian-Americans with impunity, and you can continue to ignore the great contributions Italian Americans have made to our society, as...

The number of Italian Americans who hold themselves apart from the Columbus standard bearers is substantial. That we do not have a public voice is not for the lack of trying. There are academics, journalists, and independent scholars pursuing the...

To judge and mock an entire ethnic group is the worst kind of stereotype mongering. It’s the equivalent of using the hated N- word to describe an entire race. It’s even worse when the denigration comes from within the group.

Italian Americans have become the worst of ourselves. We made Columbus into the representative for the vestiges of a vanishing identity. Interestingly, perhaps subconsciously, we have selected someone whose conquests align with an ultra-masculine identity we deem as authentically Italian...

In this case, Anthony Tamburri discusses the Calandra Institute’s stated policy of neutrality and how the Institute’s neutral position was mis-represented by the phrase, “Calandra is not supporting Columbus,” and nothing more. Hence the politics of omission!

As a collective community, with many shared experiences, do we, Italian/Americans, need a unifying myth? During this historical moment, of deep alienation and ethnic insecurity, the answer seems to be – yes! All myths are artificial creations of the human...

Nella residenza ufficiale di Bill de Blasio per la festa che annuncia il mese dedicato alla cultura italiana, il sindaco di New York scansa la polemica su Colombo pur sottolineando la storia dei sacrifici degli immigrati italiani in America, mentre...

"Toscanini: Musician of Conscience", this definitive volume by Harvey Sachs, a brilliant writing that reads like a gripping novel, and which will likely rekindle the public’s interest in the greatest conductor of the 20th century. Arturo Toscanini is a model...

As an Italian born in Italy, I haven’t been able to become as passionate about Columbus as an Italian born and raised in America. My remarks on this debate on taking down or keeping up the statue are affected by...