Classes and Discussion Schedule

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  • Thursday, March 5:

    Introduction, Leaving the Mezzogiorno. Excerpts from C. Alvaro, C. Levi, Screening: Wenders, “Il Volo”

  • Week I, March 9-13:

    Connell, “A New History for a New Millennium,” Excerpts from Guglielmo, Living the Revolution; Cannistraro and Meyer, The Lost World of Italian American Radicalism

Screening: Grillo, “La pena del pane” and “Ad Ipponion”

  • Week II, March 16-20:

    Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (Cristo fra i muratori)

  • Week III, March 23-27

    Francesco Durante, “Chronicle of the Great Exodus,” “Colonial Chronicles,” “On Stage (and Off),” “Anarchists, Socialists, Fascists and Antifascists,” “Integrated Apocalyptics”

  • Week IV, March 30-April 3

    Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim; Screening: Pane Amaro.

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  • Week V, April 6-10

    Pellegrino D’Acierno, “The Making of Italian American Cultural Identity: From La Cultura Negatato Strong Ethnicity” Screening: Scorsese, Italianamerican

  • Week VI, April 13-17

    Race: Excerpts from Pardini In the Name of the Mother; and Gennari, Flavor and Soul; Guglielmo, Are Italians White?; Gugliemo, White On Arrival

  • Week VII, April 20-24

    Race: Ragusa, The Skin Between Us; Screening: Fuori/Outside

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  • Week VIII, April 27-May 1

    Gender: Excerpts from Barolini, Umbertina; Laurino,Old World Daughter; Bono, By the Breath of Their Mouths.

  • Week IX, May 4-8

    Gender, excepts from Gardaphé, From Wise Guys to Wise Men: The Gangster and Italian American Masculinities; Laurino, Old World Daughter, New World Mother.

  • Week X, May 11-15

    LGBTQ: Excerpts from Lanzillotto, L is for Lion and Lo Giudice and Carasone, Our Naked Lives: Essays From Gay Italian American Men.

  • Week XI, May 18-22

    Anti-Italianism Screening: Sacco and Vanzetti

  • Week XII, May 25-29

    Anti-Italianism Screening: Anti-Italianism

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