Italian Migrations - HONOR313_FA18 Main Menu Who we are - Book authors The True Legend of Peppe Voltarelli The Order of Things screening at MoPA with director Andrea Segre Little Italy Field Trip Jim Bregante and growing up in Little Italy Meet my Parents: An Immigration Story - Veronica Montemayor An interview with my parents regarding their migration process from the Philippines to the United States HON 313 Final Project - Dillyn McHenry Four Short Stories About Immigration CHImmigration: My Family's Migration Stories - Jasmine Chi The retelling of my grandfather's and father's experiences migrating from North to South Korea as well as from Korea to the United States with connections tying back to a novel we read in class. A Day in Little Italy - Malia and Sierra Final Project Sierra and Malia Final Project Hey Little Italy - TJ Griggs and Olivia Kirke Song of Little Italy From Colombia to Miami A Book in the Dust: An Ask the Dust Sequel by Dana Tsuri-Etzioni The Experience of an Italian Sephardic Jew in Los Angeles, 1940. By Kaeli Leoni. Mangiamo: An Italian Mukbang - Keely and Charli Al and Adela - Different Families, Same Purpose| Mariel Geronimo The Toth Family's Migration - Sydney Wagner Peppe Goes to America by Analise Ilsley, Jason Valentini, and Lorenzo Santor Remix to Migration - Peter Mitri Covers of Popular Songs: Italian Migration Style Italian Art and Migration - Dipali Shah In this project I am exploring various art forms , and how migration has affected/spread them throughout the world. Final Project: Stories of Immigration Throughout the World - Madison and Alexa Final Project Ximena Campos and Jessica Anthony Interviews of immigration from different perspectives My Grandfather's Immigration Journey - Naomi Marroquin Honors 313 Final Project [Italy and the World] - Jake Hurwitz Final Project

Introduction to the course

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Course description

The residents of the Italian peninsula and its nearest large islands have been among the most migratory of people on earth (1) […] Looking for an Italian diaspora brings the global and circulatory character of migration from Italy into sharp focus. It also forces us to ask what difference Italy’s connections to the wider world have made to the national history of Italy and to the national histories of receiving countries. Would either Italy or the countries where Italians settled be the same had this migration not occurred?  
Donna Gabaccia, Italy’s Many Diasporas, 2000, p. 9.

This course adopts an interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational approach to the study of the making of Italians through the experience of migration. It uses literature, film, music, and popular culture, and focuses on the cultural history of Italians in Italy and abroad from Italian Unification (1861) to the present. As noted by historian Donna Gabaccia, Italy’s extraordinary emigrant past reaches the four corners of the globe, while it was also a significant phenomenon within the country itself, with a movement South to North which contributed to shape the so called “Southern Question.” Today such rich history is intersecting with the nation’s peculiar status as a country of immigration from everywhere in the world, an aspect which makes contemporary Italy a veritable “ethnic and cultural puzzle” of unprecedented proportions. This course investigates both migratory phenomena – inbound and outbound flows – from the point of view of the travel of culture, people and ideas. We will discuss cultural texts in different media and genres from novels and short stories to digital archives, interviews, songs, and films. 

Particular relevance will be given to the study of cultural representations of Italians in the U.S. We will examine the role of literary and popular images of Italian Americans in the construction of Italian and Italian American identities. Some of the topics discussed will include the important, albeit sometime neglected, contributions of Italian Americans to American culture and their contradictory desire to assimilate despite abuse, exclusion, and discrimination. Such themes will be analyzed within a theoretical transnational framework attentive to race, ethnicity, national formations, sexual and gender relations. All along we will be asking how definitions of Italians and Americans change when we place the experience of migrants, not on the margins, but at the center of national identity formations. Finally, we will study how migrants in Italy, particularly, from the Global South, the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia and Latin America, are changing the face of the nation and Italian culture. Questions of race, class, gender, sexuality, colonialism and citizenship and their creative transfigurations will remain at the center of our discussion throughout the course.
 

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  1. Little Italy Field Trip Clarissa Clò
  2. Jim Bregante and growing up in Little Italy Clarissa Clò
  3. The Order of Things screening at MoPA with director Andrea Segre Clarissa Clò
  4. Who we are - Book authors Clarissa Clò

Contents of this path:

  1. Who we are - Book authors
  2. Little Italy Field Trip
  3. The True Legend of Peppe Voltarelli
  4. The Order of Things screening at MoPA with director Andrea Segre
  5. Jim Bregante and growing up in Little Italy