The whole view related to this demand is able to take only a part of the issue into account. It focuses on the effects, but is blind to the cause – namely, it considers the demand for identity as the...
Read moreBefore this anthropological more than political drift, the temptation many contemporary liberal thinkers – be they from the left or right – is to adopt a defensive position. Yet, in so doing what is fostered is, paradoxically, the “we/them” juxtaposition...
Read moreItalian 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...
Read moreDa parte di un Siciliano che ha avuto nonno e figlio immigrati in USA e che ha seguito tutte le loro peripezie attraverso le cellette al secondo piano di Ellis Island... un Siciliano, da secoli razzialmente discriminato negli USA dai...
Read moreThe very narratives of Italian American identity deal with the issues of remembering and forgetting both Italy and Little Italys, and today one of the master narratives of Italian American identity appears once a year in the celebration of Columbus...
Read moreNon è facile insegnare la storia di Cristoforo Colombo in una classe d'italiano senza rischiare di offendere studenti che provengono da culture che non hanno alcuna stima per le imprese dell'esploratore genovese. Eppure, soprattutto in ottobre, arriva il momento di spiegare perché New York...
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