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L'Italian American Boxing Awards, evento che rappresenta il perfetto mix tra sport e cultura ideato e organizzato da New York Italians, ANPS USA e Fordham University, domenica sera ha visto la sua prima edizione nella storica palestra di New York Gleason's Gym. Nel 1937 l'italiano Peter Robert Gagliardi inglesizzò il suo nome in Bobby Gleason, per...

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by Marscha Dubrow   Italian American stereotypes, from the mafia to "The Real Housewives of New Jersey", were debunked at the Library of Congress Oct. 30 by co-authors of an exquisite new book, "Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A Visual History of the Italian American Experience from the Collections of the Library of Congress".   In a wa...

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di Giovanna Cirino   Fuggire dalla fame, dalla violenza, da un destino bastardo già segnato. Partire per costruirsi un futuro dignitoso. Storie di ieri come cronache di oggi. Cambiano i nomi, il colore della pelle, i moli di partenza, i porti d'arrivo, ma coraggio e paura, ottimismo e malasorte, sono il comune filo rosso di esperienze che si...

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More than a century ago, Francesco Vollono left Italy and the poverty in his hometown outside Naples for a new life in America. Joined by his wife, Annunziata, and their three children in 1905, they were part of the early wave of immigrants who took up residence in Wooster Square   Five generations of their descendants, led by their grandda...

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  L'Irpinia, ma potremmo dire l'Italia, è madre ingrata: spesso cresce i suoi figli, li illude e poi li costringe a partire per veder sbocciare il proprio talento altrove.   Non molto tempo fa intervistammo Francesco Addesa, a Lanciano magazziniere e a Londra docente universitario, oggi tocca a Manuela Picariello, 33 anni, dottoranda d...

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by Peggy Sturdivant   Their parents didn't immigrate to America. They are not first, second or third generation Italian-Americans. They work in research laboratories at UW, the Hutch, and Seattle Children's Research Institute. They work at Microsoft and Boeing, Amazon and start-up companies. They are the new Italians living and working in Se...

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In un personalissimo testo, Martin Scorsese rievoca la New York e l'America della sua infanzia: feste, rituali e cibo in arrivo dal Sud Italia, il matrimonio dei genitori combinato per unire le famiglie provenienti dai paesini di Polizzi Generosa e Cimmina, la scelta/necessità del giovane Martin di varcare "il confine di Houston Street" per raccont...

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By Pamela Dorazio Dean and Serena Scaiola, Consul of Italy in Cleveland USA Today bestselling author Pamela Schoenewaldt will host two events in June at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The success of her first book presentation in 2011 prompted Hon.   Consul Serena Scaiola and WRHS Curator for Italian American History Pamela Dorazio...

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Emigration and religion are two words that are often, and properly, juxtaposed one to another, and the history of Italian emigration to the United States is no exception to this rule. Religion was for our emigrants a fundamental part in the beginning of their life in the new world, and remained so even in the continuation of their lives and for tho...

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"It was hot and humid that July day in1917, and the neighborhood odors were floating along on top of the muggy air.... Big Gino and his friend Franzini were walking to the bank to deposit the cash Big Gino had from yesterday's ice wagon routes. They stepped off the curb at the corner to cross the street. "Bruno, the teamster driving the loaded bee...

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