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Playing with foodessay 1993 • Magliocco, Sabina & Del Guidice, Lusia
Italian Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Foodways are "…one of the most important symbols through which ethnic groups in America have maintained their individual identities and communicated them to the world around them"…(pp. 107-108). In this paper Magliocco examines food symbolically espe...Stereotypes as cultural constructsessay 1993 • Schellenbaum, Paola & Del Guidice, Lusia
Italian Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is an article on Italian stereotypes: How Italian-American perceive themselves and are perceived by others; also, the relationship between these perceptions, and how these perceptions change over time. The article is mostly an erudite discussion...Tears of bloodessay 1993 • Chairetakis, Anna L. & Del Guidice, Lusia
Italian Americans • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This is a study of Calabrian polyphonic song-poems, VILLANELLA, which are sung by Italian-American women, kin and friends who meet in small groups. The songs employ figurative language and metaphor. The imagery of the natural world and body such as f...