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Author Steven Decker tells a story, inspired by true events, that has been called “A must read” and “… an amazing story, beautifully written." Decker said “For too long, Italian immigrants have been criminalized in books and movies and their violent acts glamorized. The real story is that 99% of the Italians came here to work hard and give their fa...

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There’s a very interesting book called “Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge”, which tells very well about an important aspect of the Italian American experience.  The relationship between the Italian Americans and the African Americans reveals more than one could think, about how the Italian Americans integrated into the A...

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Kenyon Zimmer, assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington, has written a comprehensive treatment of the American anarchist movement. It is a volume in the series Working Class in American History, edited by a team of renowned scholars. His six chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion, are dense concentrations of per...

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As migrant children were recently being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, Lidia Bastianich’s own refugee story has an eerily familiar ring. The accomplished Italian chef and restaurateur takes a break from award-winning cookbooks to unpack her own immigrant story in the just-released “My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family,...

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If the fictional city of Jeweltown and its suburbs bear more than a slight resemblance to the Clarksburg area in writer and columnist John Brown’s novel “Augie’s War,” there’s a reason for that. And if the main character — Harrison County native Augie Compton — reminds anyone of Brown, well, there’s a reason for that, too. “I thought I could write...

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Giovanna Miceli Jeffries è nata a Ribera (AG), in Sicilia, dove è cresciuta e ha terminato la scuola superiore prima di emigrare negli USA. È professore emerito dell’Università del Wisconsin-Madison e negli ultimi 25 anni è stata la direttrice del programma italiano presso l’Italian Workmen’s Club of Madison. Giovanna ha scritto e presentato varie...

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«Ciao ciao bambina». Nel 1959 Domenico Modugno vinse a Sanremo con Johnny Dorelli cantando Piove. In realtà quella canzone resterà nella memoria per il ritornello: «Ciao ciao bambina», che presto si diffonderà all’estero nella trascrizione inglese «Chiow Chiow Bambeena», in quella tedesca «Tschau Tschau Bambina», in quella spagnola «Chao chao bambi...

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Sono stati presentati a Roma i tre finalisti della tredicesima edizione del 'Premio John Fante Opera Prima', riconoscimento riservato agli scrittori esordienti italiani nell'ambito del ‘John Fante Festival - Il Dio di mio padre. Il festival, che si svolge ogni anno a Torricella Peligna in agosto, nato nel 2006 per ricordare lo scrittore italo ameri...

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Sicilian has really a quite amazing history, one fairly different from the rest of the romance languages in the modern Italian Republic. I made a YouTube video about it that does a great job explaining. In short, prior to the Norman Conquest, Sicilians generally spoke Greek and Siculo-Arabic (which has become Maltese). The current Latinisation of S...

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Anthony Iacone, owner/president of K & I Associates Inc., founder of the Joseph J. Barrett All-Star Basketball Game, a fourth-degree knight in the Father Donnelly Knights of Columbus, a chairman of the St. James Wall of Honor Committee, and the founder of the Phi Sigma Epsilon Fraternity Alumni Association in Superior, has completed his new book “M...

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