Interrogations into Italian-American Studies - The Francesco and Mary Giambelli Foundation Lectures

. . . A strong sense of commonality is that necessary ingredient for the population to cohere and this to progress: for the study of all things Italian/American to become part and parcel of the dominant culture, as it is for other United States hyphenated groups.
All of this is dependent on an Italian/American commitment (impegno) to the appreciation of our culture. This entails an active participation in cultural activities of all sorts; it requires that Italian/American groups make a concerted effort to go beyond those one or two activities they have identified as their own, and make attempts to expand their agenda to include a new, more encompassing form of cultural integration. All of this, as we shall see, is dependent on a combination of cultural awareness and appreciation: namely a new sense of the Italian/American self that ultimately leads to an appropriation of one's cultural legacy.
-From the introduction

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• Assisted by: Anthony Julian Tamburri (Editor)
• Publisher: Bordighera Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781599541433
• ISBN: 978-1-59954-143-3
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 240 g
• Series: Saggistica
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics