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- Title
Musings on Re-Thinking Italian(/American) Studies in the Third Millennium Where Have We Been? Where Can We Go?
- Authors
Tamburri, Anthony Julian
- Abstract
The Author reflects on the cultural meaning of Italian American(ness) today. He starts addressing an issue that can be applied to all migrants in the past, and even more significantly in the present, that is: «the immigrant's full incorporation [read also, assimilation] depends not on [his/her] own beliefs or actions but, ultimately, on the [host] society's perception of [the outsider]». Then he asks how Italian Americans are considered in Italy and in the US, and what now unites Italian Americans. Looking for a possible cohesive force cites past discrimination - from lynchings to Enemy Aliens registration during the Second World War - that still are heading into the stereotypes offered by many television series, sit coms and reality shows. He concludes with an appeal that the Italian American culture would be incorporated in the US curricula urging the same Italian Americans to learn to take more seriously their culture, either local or national, through the language, and to support it in every possible way.
- Subjects
ITALIAN Americans; ITALIAN American literature; TUSIANI, Joseph
- Publication
Altreitalie, 2015, Issue 50, p164
- ISSN
1120-0413
- Publication type
Article