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  • The Association of Italian American Educators announced its Gala. Will take place the First of May from 2:00-5:00 PM at the Chateau Briand, located at 440 Old Country Road, Carle Place, Long Island. Please find attached the invitation
  • Library: Articles & Reviews
    Fred Gardaphe(January 19, 2014)
    All This Talk of Love: A Novel. Christopher Castellani takes the immigrant saga well beyond timeworn plots, showing us all that becoming American effects, but doesn’t erase, our being Italian. “We didn’t go to Italy to sight see. We went so that my mother could visit the family she’d given up to marry my father, who’d emigrated to America after World War II. We went so that my parents could introduce me to the “real” world—vivid, honest, and unspoiled— and so they could escape the harsh and colorless “new” world. We went because my mother missed her best friends, her six brothers and sisters, who were still relatively young and very much alive.”
  • Most Italian-Italians, the ones from Italy, that is, always seem to be curious as to how we Italian-Americans are perceived by others in America. With all the news they’ve heard of Italian stereotypes in America, like the ones put forward in “The Godfather,” “The Sopranos,” “Mafia Wars,” and “The Jersey Shore,” I understand what they expect.
  • Discovering a feminist-motherhood agenda in the actions of Michelle Obama that incorporates both Old World and American traditions.