Do Black Lives Matter In Italy?
The refusal of the Italian football team to take a knee on the global stage only reinforces the already widespread discriminatory behavior.
The refusal of the Italian football team to take a knee on the global stage only reinforces the already widespread discriminatory behavior.
If Italian Americans are badly portrayed as stereotypes, what would be a better portrayal of the culture and identity and people who claim it?
How 80 years of stock characters on television contributed to make Italians fit into the American ‘other’ model. But now things are changing.
“If it weren’t for my husband, I would still be in Umbria. Who knew that after two months from the day we met, we would be getting married in San Francisco?”
It’s the Italian American Identity Sydrome. They are called William and James, but they still retained their surnames which marked them as different.
Twenty years after 9/11, very little is different. But everyone is changed.
The real Italian thing lies in the wince, the smile, the glance, the wave.
While I was sitting at a cafe in North Beach, I started to wonder what makes something ‘Italian’.
Italians of the Bay Area is a new series in Italics Magazine that features interviews with Italians living in California as well as with Californians of Italian descent.
I am glad to see that those who raise the Italian American banner on the identity politics battlefield are mostly ignored.
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