Meet the fastest-growing Italian/American website in town, now turned into a not-for-profit corporation based in New York. Our first donor is the American Society of Italian Legions of Merit whose president is Judge Dominic Massaro.
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"Saints and Sinners", by Abigail Honor, tells the story of an Italian/American gay couple planning a wedding according to Catholic rite. It was screened in the CUNY TV studios by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College
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If critiques of movie/TV shows get beyond the criminality and make more comprehensive literary critiques of these dramas, they will find many positive literary qualities which may explain their popularity with Italian Americans.
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Catholic schools used to be a place where the needs of the IA community could be provided for. Should the role of the community college be the same?
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Giuseppe Prezzolini was an important Italian intellectual in the first half of the 20th century. As director of Columbia's Casa Italiana and as a journalist, he had much opportunity to meet Italian Americans of various types. His trenchant but painful observations are gathered in his book I Trapiantati (The Transplanted) (1962), the main point of which is that Italians in America, though economically successful, paid an enormous price - they're "mutilated" in their original language, and thus mutilated in spirit; they've lost contact with those from whom they sprang, without being comfortable with or centered among Americans. Prezzolini's mistake was that he assumed that things would not change, that assimilation would not advance beyond his point of observation in early-mid 20th century, that Italian Americans would always remain in some sense on the periphery of American life. He was wrong (for the most part).
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Columbus, like many figures of history, has outlived his usefulness for all Americans, but for Italian Americans he continues to represent the struggle their immigrant forbearers overcame in becoming Americans.
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New Immigrant Influxes Diluted Italianità in Our Cities. Is the Old Country Next?
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In March 2006 the US Census Bureau released its first annual report on Italian Americans. It gave us a statistical profile of Italian America between the decennial census reports. But, how do we define Italian Americans?
