Required Texts
Open source or excerpts provided as pdfs.
Barolini, Helen, ed. The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian American
Women (1985)
Ciardi, John. Selected Poems.
Connell, William J., and Stanislao Pugliese, eds. The Routledge History of Italian
Americans (2019)
DeLillo, Don. “Spaghetti and Meatballs” (1965)
De Rosa, Tina, Paper Fish (1980)
DeSalvo, Louise. Selected Essays.
Deti Lathrop, Marguerite, “Zia Grazia” (1941)
Di Donato, Pietro. Christ in Concrete (Short story, 1937)
---. Christ in Concrete (Novel, 1939)
Di Mario, Marie. “Little Italys” (1942)
di Prima, Diane. Selected Poems.
Fante, John. Ask the Dust (1939)
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence. “The Old Italians Dying” (1976)
Gambino, Richard. Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian-Americans (1974)
Gardaphè, Fred, et al. Selected Essays on Christopher Columbus Controversy.
Guglielmo, Jennifer and Salvatore Salerno, eds. Are Italians White? How Race Is Made
in America (2003)
Haller, Hermann. “Italian Speech Varieties in the United States,” (1987)
Laurino, Maria. Were You Always an Italian? (2000)
Mangione, Jerre. La Storia. Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience (1992)
---. Mount Allegro (1943)
Radaelli, Mariella. “Calabria’s San Giovanni in Fiore: An Emblem of Emigration” (2022)
Ragusa, Kym. The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (2006)
Ruberto, Laura, and Joseph Sciorra, eds. New Italian Migrations to the United States
2 Vols. (2017)
Staples, Brent. “How Italians Became White” (2019)
Talese, Gay. Selected Essays.
Tomasi, Mari. “Stone” (1942)
Tropea, Joseph. “Monongah Revisited” (2013)