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Open Borders
(March 2021)
Encounters between Italian Philosophy and Continental Thought
Silvia Benso - Editor
Antonio Calcagno - Editor
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Intersecting Diasporas
(January 2021)
Italian Americans and Allyship in US Fiction
Suzanne Manizza Roszak - Author
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Sense of Origins
(August 2020)
A Study of New York's Young Italian Americans
Rosemary Serra - Author
Scott R. Kapuscinski - Translator
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Studies the relationship between young Italian Americans and their Italian cultural and historical heritage.
In Sense of Origins, Rosemary Serra explores the lives of a significant group of self-identified young Italian Americans residing in New York City and its surrounding areas. The book presents and examines the results of a survey she conducted of their values, family ...(Read More) |
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Fearless
(May 2020)
A. Bartlett Giamatti and the Battle for Fairness in America
Neil Thomas Proto - Author
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Biography of the early years of A. Bartlett Giamatti, who would become Yale University’s first non-Anglo-Saxon Protestant president and commissioner of Major League Baseball.
In 1977, a thirty-nine-year-old Italian American professor of Renaissance literature, A. Bartlett Giamatti, was chosen as the next president of Yale University, a radical act that was immediately perceived as a threat to the university’s embedde...(Read More) |
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When I Am Italian
(November 2019)
Joanna Clapps Herman - Author
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Can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian?
“My ancestral Italian village in America was in Waterbury, Connecticut.” In this sentence, Joanna Clapps Herman raises the central question of this book: To what extent can a person born outside of Italy be considered Italian? The granddaughter of Italian immigrants who arrived in the United States in the early 1900s, Clapps Herman takes a complicated and ...(Read More) |
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The Autobiography of a Language
(August 2019)
Emanuel Carnevali's Italian/American Writing
Andrea Ciribuco - Author
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Explores the links between language, cultural identity, and creativity through the works of Emanuel Carnevali, one of the first Italian American authors to attain literary recognition.
The Autobiography of a Language is an exploration of the deep and powerful ties between language and identity, focusing on an Italian American author and addressing global themes of modern writing. This is the first extensive, book-length w...(Read More) |
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Facing toward the Dawn
(January 2019)
The Italian Anarchists of New London
Richard Lenzi - Author
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Examines the history of the Italian anarchist movement in New London, Connecticut.
In the early twentieth century, the Italian American radical movement thrived in industrial cities throughout the United States, including New London, Connecticut. Facing toward the Dawn tells the history of the vibrant anarchist movement that existed in New London’s Fort Trumbull neighborhood for seventy years. Comprised of immigrants fro...(Read More) |
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Congress and Diaspora Politics
(September 2018)
The Influence of Ethnic and Foreign Lobbying
James A. Thurber - Editor
Colton C. Campbell - Editor
David A. Dulio - Editor
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Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.
Congress and Diaspora Politics examines the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking. Over time, the number and variety of ethnic groups have grown, and foreign governments have increasingly turned to professional lobbyists rather than relying on their diplomatic co...(Read More) |
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From Italy to the North End
(July 2017)
Photographs, 1972-1982
Anthony V. Riccio - Author
James Pasto - Foreword by
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Documents the arc of the Italian American immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.
As a young boy, Anthony V. Riccio listened to his grandparents’ stories of life in the small Italian villages where they had grown up and which they had left in order to emigrate to the United States. In the early 1970s, he traveled to those villages—Alvignano and Sippiciano—and elsewhere...(Read More) |
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Beyond Memory
(September 2016)
Italian Protestants in Italy and America
Dennis Barone - Author
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Uncovers an overlooked aspect of the Italian American experience.
In Beyond Memory, Dennis Barone uncovers the richness and diversity of the Italian Protestant experience and places it in the context of migration and political and social life in both Italy and the United States. Italian Protestants have received scant attention in the fields of Italian American studies, religious studies, and immigration studies, and t...(Read More) |
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