Monday October 11th, 2010 7pm//City Lights Books//261 “Columbus”//SF CA
The Italian-American Political Solidarity Club’s annual fete of people of Italian dissent turns eight. Jennifer Guglielmo, editor of Are Italians White: How Race is Made in America discusses her new book Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City 1880-1945. In a time of anti-immigrant reaction, the IAPSC proposes that Italian-Americans break from the “Columbus Myth” of conquest and embrace traditions in our histories rooted in human solidarity. Guglielmo will be joined in conversation by Berkeley City College professor Laura Ruberto, author of Gramsci, Migration and the Representation of Women’s Work and translator of Such is Life/Ma la vita è fatta cosi and Tommi Avicolli Mecca, editor of Smash the Church,Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation.Co-hosted by Cameron Mc Henry and James Tracy , co-editors ofAvanti Popolo: Italian-American
Writers Sail Beyond Columbus.
