Italian American

By the middle of the decade, disco dancing spread to nightclubs in Italian American neighborhoods, from where it moved into mainstream American culture.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

From 1958, when Dion DiMucci and the Belmonts placed several songs on the pop charts, until the “British Invasion” of 1964, Italian American doo-wop groups dominated American popular music.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Of course, Italian American gangsters were the frontline troops in the war against Prohibition.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Wise to the rules of America, Italian American leaders taught their people to be slow and steady.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

But the efforts to distance themselves from blacks did not cohere into a new Italian American racial identity and culture until the 1940s.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

She grew up in an Italian American family in Brooklyn, making her one of the few Beat poets actually raised in New York City.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

Her mother, a third-generation Italian American and a strict Catholic, is both lauded and lamented, an example to her daughter of how and how not to live.

Rosanne Cash pens a rich memoir about her personal and musical journey 2010

She grew up in an Italian American family in Brooklyn, making her one of the few Beat poets actually raised in New York City.

The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

Officials from Italian American groups in Providence slammed the decision telling The Providence Journal that Columbus should be recognized as a hero who discovered America

Brown University Cancels Columbus Day Amid Protests 2009

Officials from Italian American groups in Providence slammed the decision telling The Providence Journal that Columbus should be recognized as a hero who discovered America

Brown University Cancels Columbus Day Amid Protests 2009