Class, Reading, and Discussion Schedule
WEEK I
October 27: Leaving the Mezzogiorno
Stanislao Pugliese, “The Ironies of Italian American History” Power Point
“A pena do pana,” The Price of Bread, dir. Lucia Grillo 2004, 18 minutes
https://www.calabrisellafilms.com/shop-films/thecostofbreadstreaming-dt3n4
October 28 Encountering the New World as Tragedia
Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (1939) pp. 3-22.
Film: Pietro Di Donato, lo scrittore muratore
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=238822827802534
October 29: Encountering the New World as Commedia
Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965) pp. 266-68; 277-283
Guest Speaker: Sam Patti, President, Foundation for Italian Diaspora Studies
WEEK II
November 3: Italian American Women
Helen Barolini, excerpt from Umbertina, (1979) Part One, Chapters 4-5, pp. 58-72.
Lucia Grillo interviews Helen Barolini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77a8rU8qG7M
November 4: Italian American Identity I
William J. Connell, “A New History for a New Millennium,” from RHIA pp. 1-13.
November 5: Italian American Identity II
Fred Gardaphé, “Breaking and Entering: An Italian American’s Literary Odyssey”
Tony DeNonno, Director, Part of Your Loving, 1977, 10 minutes
https://hofstra.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Part+of+your+loving/1_yv9xwwae
WEEK III
November 10: Power and Freedom
Pugliese, “Fascism and Antifascism in Italian America,” RHIA
Frank Sinatra, “The House I Live In” Director Mervyn LeRoy, 1946. (10 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwHkb1wEfU
November 11: Race
Kym Ragusa, The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging (excerpt)
Film screening Fuori/Outside Kym Ragusa, director, (13 minutes)
https://ezproxy.hofstra.edu/login?url=https://video.alexanderstreet.com/p/jYMYo6gr5
November 12: Creating the Calabrian Self in America
Joseph Luzzi, “The Witch of Naples” from My Two Italies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2D5Sq4ZMk (start at 3:30-28:40)
WEEK IV
November 17: Gender
Louise DeSalvo, “A Portrait of the Puttana as a Woman in Midlife” from Vertigo.
De Salvo, “Personal Effects” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5ah-Ebzz6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUNYNTIzSKs (Pugliese 42’-48’; Romanello 48’-59’)
Annie Lanzillotto, “Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire with Bells and Tears”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNT8w0cUM2w (2 minutes)
November 18 Recent Immigration
Ruberto and Sciorra, “Rebooting Italian America,” Intro, New Italian Migrations to the United States, vol. 2.
Michele Petruzziello photos: https://www.petruzziellomichele.com/client-albums
Tamorriatta, Alessandra Belloni/John LaBarbera I Giullari di Piazza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjtS5gJAiK0
La storia che si ripete? Letter to a son. Pier Luigi Celli, past Direttore generale della RAI, President LUISS University, Rome; “Figlio mio, lascia questo paese” La Repubblica 30 Novembre 2009
https://liberapiemonte.it/2009/12/01/figlio-mio-lascia-questo-paese/
Mattia Celli, Master’s degree, mechanical engineering, Università di Roma, La Sapienza 110/lode
First job: Ferrari; Today: Consultant and Partner, Bain & Co, Rome
https://www.bain.com/our-team/mattia-celli/
November 19 The Future of Our Past
Turismo delle Radici, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, “Carissima Grandma Rose” in Whaddyacall the Wind?
Gay Talese, “Those who love you, make you cry . . .” from Unto the Sons (pp. 627-629).
Stanislao Pugliese, “The Future of Our Past,” from RHIA.