This is a "Guide book" to the major scuplter of the Piccirilli brothers in New York City.

Freeing the Angel from the Stone a Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City

Koffler, Jerry

Koffler, Eleanor

Travel

John D. Calandra Italian-American Institute

This study examines methods for obtaining a more accurate count of people whospeak Italian in the United States.

Si, Parliamo Italiano: Globalization of the Italian Culture in the United States (Calandra Institute Transactions)

Reference

Milione, Vincenzo

Gambino, Christine

Foreign Language Study & Reference

This collection of twenty-eight essays by Italian and Italian-American scholars explores the impact of globalization on individuals' lives in both Italy and the United States. Examined are such concerns as the preservation of local cultures; the conflicting values resulting from social change; the maintenance of one's social identity and heritage; our resulting perceptions and political actions; and the effects on employment stability and workplace environment.

Uncertainty and Insecurity in the New Age (Studies in Italian Americana)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Italian-American Students in New York City, 1975 2000 (Studies in Italian Americana)

This collection offers a fresh re-reading and re-imagining of Italian Americans in film, from actors to directors, from subject to agency. The trans-Atlantic discourse that emerges from these keenly insightful essays offers a guidepost for future analyses. As we come to understand the evolving paradigm of Italian Americans, whose cinematic representation has long been object of discussion and debate, Mediated Ethnicity constitutes a prismatic lens through which the contemporary viewer/reader may re-discover the cultural positioning of Italians in America. - John Tintori Associate Arts Professor and Chair, Graduate Film Program New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Mediated Ethnicity: New Italian-American Cinema (Studies in Italian Americana)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Within Catholicism, ex-votos are votive objects presented in thanks for heavenly intercession with a misfortune such as an accident or illness. This book features two types of Italian ex-votos from the collection of Leonard Norman Primiano, dating from 1832 to 1959: metal objects in the shapes of people, afflicted body parts, or hearts, and painted narrative tablets depicting the dramatic moment of crisis for which intercession was requested. Collectively, the three essays address a history of ex-votos and their place within Catholic thought, their creation and use by Italian Americans, and finally, the ex-votos' social life beyond their original religious context, in particular, as collectibles and inspiration for studio-trained artists.

Graces Received: Painted and Metal Ex-votos from Italy

History & Criticism

This book analyzes intra-ethnic elections in the United States, in the circumstance of American politicians of Italian descent who ran against each other in the State of New York. This kind of race splits the ethnic group vote and neutralizes the ethnic appeal of both contenders, for neither one can use ancestry as an argument to draw votes away from the opponent. The first part examines the 2010 gubernatorial campaign between Andrew M. Cuomo and Carl P. Paladino, the highest-level intra-Italian electoral contest in contemporary times. The second part addresses the Congressional races between James Lanzetta and Vito Marcantonio in East Harlem in the 1930s, and the 1950 New York City mayoral elections, where the three major candidates-Vincent Impellitteri, Ferdinand Pecora, and Edward Corsi-were all Italian-born. The third part investigates the relationship between social demographics and the success of Italian American politicians in hegemonic districts where intra-Italian elections occur frequently. These studies conclude that the success of American politicians of Italian origin is linked to their capacity to appeal to broader segments of the electorate. Italian signs are numerous in American politics, increasingly so as Italian American politicians demonstrate their ability to provide political representation to society as a whole.

Italian Signs, American Politics: Current Affairs, Historical Perspectives, Empirical Analyses

History

Americas

New Directions in Italian and Italian American History (Studies in Italian Americana)

Europe

"Why Study Italian" includes essays by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Claudio Bisogniero, Roberto Dolci, Clorinda Donato, Fred Gardaphé, Hermann W. Haller, Silvana Mangione, Vincenzo Marra, Berardo Paradiso, Eugenia Paulicelli, Natalia Quintavalle, Anthony Julian Tamburri, and Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata. The idea for this editorial project was born out of discussions that paralleled those that were taking place around the re-implementation of the Advanced Placement Program in Italian, which the College Board had suspended after the 2010 administration of the Advanced Placement Exam in Italian. The goal of this collection is not to speak to the specifics of the Advanced Placement Program in Italian in any direct way. Instead, this compilation offers an array of different voices that address the general question, "Why study Italian," which is presented here in its somewhat ambiguous manner. The phrase, "why study Italian," may be understood as a statement or an interrogative. The underlying issue is that Italian is, today, a language very much alive, useful, and employed by many in a multitude of venues and sectors across the world.

Why Study Italian: Diverse Perspectives on a Theme (Calandra Institute Transactions)

Words, Language & Grammar

About "The Heart Is the Teacher": [Leonard] Covello's experience as an Italian-American immigrant boy enrolled in the American public-school system and later his frustrations teaching second-generation Italian-American high-school students caused him to focus his life's work on resolving their specific educational problems. Covello's accomplishments in creating a pedagogical strategy to meet the needs of the children of Italian immigrants and his identification of the need for language and cultural retention into the second- and third-generation, and beyond, place him at the very heart of Italian-American history. The applicability of his ideas and work to other immigrant groups inserts his life and efforts into the general history of immigration in America. In addition, Leonard Covello is a major figure in a relatively small, but remarkable, group of intellectuals who posed cultural pluralism as the better path for the immigrants and for the United States than the hegemonic "Americanization" project. To the inexorable, and deplorable, prospect of the demise of the Italian-American community as a consequence of assimilation, viz., Americanization, Covello proposed an alternative vision of how Italian-American and other immigrant cultures (and especially their languages) could endure and flourish in their new homeland. - from the Afterword by Gerald Meyer

The Heart Is the Teacher

Covello, Leonard

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