Stefano Luconi
Biographic Data
| ID | 89819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Luconi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Luconi |
| SIGNATURE | LUCONI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8872-6169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Italiani d'America: La grande emigrazione negli Stati Uniti
Gli Stati Uniti di Trump La seconda elezione di Trump e le sue radici
Trump’s second victory in the race for the White House hardly marked a turning point in the history of U.S. presidential elections. Rather, it was a development in a decades-long switch of the allegiance of most white working-class voters from the Democratic Party to the GOP as the former’s growing emphasis on wokeism contributed to alienate the support of many labourers who struggled to make ends meet
To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad
Since its introduction in the early 2000s, legislation relating to the voting rights of Italians abroad has enabled millions of residents of voting age outside of Italy to engage in homeland elections and elect their own MPs. The inclusion of Italian citizens abroad in the Italian polity has nevertheless translated into a patchy electoral engagement. This article does not intend to provide an analysis of the voting choices in Italy's overseas con…
The Italian Americans’ pro-fascist lobby in the United States: Continuities and discontinuities with the liberal regime
Studies have highlighted the role of fascism in shaping Italian immigrants in the United States and their progeny into a pressure group that influenced Washington's foreign policy to the benefit of Italy. That interpretation has drawn primarily on Italian Americans’ mobilization to prevent the US Congress from passing sanctions against Mussolini's regime during the Ethiopian War and to financially support that colonial venture. Yet, fascism initi…
L'offensiva originalista contro l'aborto e le sue implicazioni. La Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti dopo Trump
President Donald Trump's most significant legacy has probably been his contribution to the establishment of an originalist, rather than conservative, majority on the Supreme Court. By overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022 on the grounds that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion in the framework of privacy protection, the originalism-oriented justices not only infringed women's reproductive rights but also paved the way for the denyial o…
Italian Immigrants, Whiteness, and Race: A Regional Perspective
This article intends to reassess Thomas Guglielmo’s “white on arrival” thesis, according to which Italian immigrants’ whiteness was not challenged in the United States and, therefore, the newcomers and their progeny never suffered from restrictions as for naturalization, marriage, property ownership, selection of the place of residence, and access to material resources that, conversely, were long denied to African Americans and other-than-white p…
Little Italy in the Great War: Philadelphia's Italians on the Battlefield and Home Front
Focusing on Philadelphia, which was then home to the second most populous Italian American community in the nation, Richard N. Juliani offers an authoritative case study for the impact of World War I on Italian immigrants and their progeny in the United States. He draws primarily upon the city's English-language newspapers (in particular, the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger) and La Libera Parola (but overlooks other local Italian-language week…
Fabio Montella, Se avessi qui Mussolini … Antifascisti, fascisti e spie del regime tra Ginevra e Alta Savoia
The vote of Italians abroad: An anomaly in the new Italian political landscape
In the parliamentary elections of 2018, right-wing populism and anti-establishment politics profoundly reshaped Italy’s electoral geography and party system. The xenophobic Lega (League) and the anti-establishment Movimento 5 Stelle (Five-star Movement, M5s) made substantial electoral gains in the domestic constituencies, paving the way for a coalition government. Outside Italy, in the constituency for Italians resident abroad, the primacy of pro…
The Fascist racial turn: The view from the Italian-American community in the United States
This article examines Italian-Americans’ reaction to the Fascist embrace of anti-Semitism in 1938, primarily by means of a perusal of the Italian-language press in the U.S. It argues that the newcomers and their offspring usually failed to distance themselves from the regime’s racial turn because of pre-existing rivalries and resentment towards U.S. Jews. It also holds that, although Italian-Americans hardly subscribed to the Fascist ideology, wh…
La costruzione dell'immagine del fascismo italiano nella stampa statunitense
Autopsia di un diritto politico: Il voto degli italiani all'estero nelle elezioni del 2018
Con l'avanzata di forze antisistema e populiste, le elezioni per il Parlamento del 2018 hanno completamente ridisegnato la geografia elettorale italiana. Nella circoscrizione estero è, in realtà, il transnazionalismo politico a esser stato messo alla prova, ovvero la capacità dei cittadini italiani residenti oltre confine di partecipare attivamente alle dinamiche elettorali sia nel Paese d'adozione sia in quello d'origine. L'alto tasso di astensi…
Italy, Italian Americans, and the Politics of the McCarran-Walter Act: Politics and History since 1945
This chapter reconstructs the eventually fruitless efforts by which the Italian government of Alcide De Gasperi and Italian Americans pursued changes to the U.S. legislation that would have let a larger number of Italian immigrants move to the United States in the early 1950s. It focuses specifically on the exploitation of the anti-communist climate of the Cold War during the Truman administration in a campaign to prevent the passing of the 1952 …
La storia della questione razziale nel cinema dell'epoca di Obama
This article examines the representation of both the fight against slavery and the black freedom struggle in selected U.S. movies produced during the Obama administration. Specifically, it assesses to what an extent such films took recent scholarly findings into account. It concludes that, while grassroots mobilization and female activism are sometimes acknowledged, the narratives tend to stress the centrality of the contribution by institutions …
Da Wilson a Trump: Gli Stati Uniti e il senso della missione
This article identifies the main issues in President Woodrow Wilson’s understanding of America’s global mission, examines the reshaping of U.S. internationalism since 1917, and assesses which characteristics of that policy are still viable after Donald J. Trump started his term at the White House. As the U.S. standing in the world generally plays an ancillary role to domestic concerns in the incoming president’s agenda, the notion of «peace by st…
Black dagoes? Italian immigrants’ racial status in the United States: An ecological view
Muhammad Ali. Un'icona dell'emancipazione degli afroamericani
Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali’s worldwide fame resulted not only from his extraordinary accomplishments in the ring but also from his unconventional social activism, public fight against racial discrimination, forthright commitment to black separatism, and blunt criticism of the Vietnam War. The article outlines Ali’s role as a spokesperson and resonance box for the radical wing of the African-American community, highlighting a few contradict…
Lontane da casa: Donne italiane e diaspora globale dall'inizio del Novecento a oggi
Nel contesto del crescente interesse per le tematiche e la prospettiva di genere nell’esame dei movimenti di popolazione in ambito globale, il volume si propone di fornire un contributo allo sviluppo della storiografia sulle migrazioni femminili italiane attraverso undici casi studio basati su ricerche e fonti originali, preceduti da due ampie rassegne storiografiche. Partendo da conoscenze consolidate, questa raccolta di saggi apre nuove prospet…
Ennio Caretto, Quando l’America si innamorò di Mussolini
Italian Immigrants' Political Adjustment in the Americas: The Case of the United States and Argentina
This article offers a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants’ political adjustment in the United States and Argentina before World War II, focusing in particular on the timing and dynamics of their participation in the electoral process. It argues that apathy shaped the newcomers’ political experience at the beginning of their stay in both countries, but Italian Argentines eventually mobilized earlier than their fellow ethnics in the United S…
Fabrizio Amore Bianco, Il cantiere di Bottai: La scuola corporativa pisana e la formazione della classe dirigente fascista
Umberto Gentiloni Silveri, Contro scettici e disfattisti: Gli anni di Ciampi, 1992–2006
Silvia Cassamagnaghi, Operazione Spose di guerra. Storie d’amore e di emigrazione
Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization
Scholarship has long suggested that, in the decades of mass migration, Italian subversives were part of a global network based on the worldwide circulation of radical ideas and activists. Yet historiography has studied such dynamics mainly in the receiving countries and has tended to overlook the Italian side of those interactions. This article examines Italian migrants’ development of political and labor militancy in a transnational perspective.…
Il ritorno del «bardo della libertà» Considerazioni in margine a una recente collettanea su Arturo Giovannitti
Forging an Ethnic Identity: The Case of Italian Americans
L’esprit de clocher caracterisa les immigres italiens aux Etats-Unis entre la fin du xixe siecle et la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Au cours des deux decennies suivantes, la diffusion du nationalisme stimule par la guerre et par le fascisme, la fin de l’immigration de masse en provenance d’Italie, l’emergence d’une nouvelle generation d’Italo-Americains nes aux Etats-Unis et surtout la discrimination anti-italienne conduisirent les Italo-Americains …
The vote of Italians abroad: An anomaly in the new Italian political landscape
In the parliamentary elections of 2018, right-wing populism and anti-establishment politics profoundly reshaped Italy’s electoral geography and party system. The xenophobic Lega (League) and the anti-establishment Movimento 5 Stelle (Five-star Movement, M5s) made substantial electoral gains in the domestic constituencies, paving the way for a coalition government. Outside Italy, in the constituency for Italians resident abroad, the primacy of pro…
Mafia-Related Prejudice and the Rise of Italian Americans in the United States
Italian immigrants to the United States and their offspring have long been the target of prejudicial accusations concerning their allegedly prominent role in criminal activities. This article investigates the influence of such an ethnic bias on their political ascent. Although politicians of Italian descent have benefitted from connections to gangsters and racketeers, especially in the Prohibition years, underworld-related charges have for the mo…
Ethnic Allegiance and Class Consciousness among Italian-American Workers, 1900–1941
In a recent attempt to outline a periodization for the history of Italian-American radicalism in the United States, Gerald Meyer and the late Philip V. Cannistraro have suggested that the pre-World
To vote or not to vote in the homeland elections? Insights into voting abstention in Italy's constituency abroad
Since its introduction in the early 2000s, legislation relating to the voting rights of Italians abroad has enabled millions of residents of voting age outside of Italy to engage in homeland elections and elect their own MPs. The inclusion of Italian citizens abroad in the Italian polity has nevertheless translated into a patchy electoral engagement. This article does not intend to provide an analysis of the voting choices in Italy's overseas con…
The Italian Americans’ pro-fascist lobby in the United States: Continuities and discontinuities with the liberal regime
Studies have highlighted the role of fascism in shaping Italian immigrants in the United States and their progeny into a pressure group that influenced Washington's foreign policy to the benefit of Italy. That interpretation has drawn primarily on Italian Americans’ mobilization to prevent the US Congress from passing sanctions against Mussolini's regime during the Ethiopian War and to financially support that colonial venture. Yet, fascism initi…
The Fascist racial turn: The view from the Italian-American community in the United States
This article examines Italian-Americans’ reaction to the Fascist embrace of anti-Semitism in 1938, primarily by means of a perusal of the Italian-language press in the U.S. It argues that the newcomers and their offspring usually failed to distance themselves from the regime’s racial turn because of pre-existing rivalries and resentment towards U.S. Jews. It also holds that, although Italian-Americans hardly subscribed to the Fascist ideology, wh…
Black dagoes? Italian immigrants’ racial status in the United States: An ecological view
Italian Immigrants' Political Adjustment in the Americas: The Case of the United States and Argentina
This article offers a comparative analysis of Italian immigrants’ political adjustment in the United States and Argentina before World War II, focusing in particular on the timing and dynamics of their participation in the electoral process. It argues that apathy shaped the newcomers’ political experience at the beginning of their stay in both countries, but Italian Argentines eventually mobilized earlier than their fellow ethnics in the United S…
Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization
Scholarship has long suggested that, in the decades of mass migration, Italian subversives were part of a global network based on the worldwide circulation of radical ideas and activists. Yet historiography has studied such dynamics mainly in the receiving countries and has tended to overlook the Italian side of those interactions. This article examines Italian migrants’ development of political and labor militancy in a transnational perspective.…
Guido Piovene Nell' America Di Truman
Questo articolo esamina le considerazioni espresse da Guido Piovene nel De America (1953) sulla situazione politica degli Stati Uniti all'inizio degli anni Cinquanta. Nonostante il maccartismo, le tensioni razziali, un pesante clima antisindacale e i crescenti condizionamenti delle lobbies sul sistema politico, lo scrittore formulò un giudizio sostanzialmente positivo sulla società americana e sul suo livello di democraticità. Tale valutazione, p…
Discrimination and Identity Construction: The Case of Italian Immigrants and their Offspring in the USA
This paper applies the concept of ethnicity as a social and cultural construction to the experience of Italian Americans in the USA. It shows that the newcomers who arrived from the Italian peninsula in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revealed a localistic sense of belonging as a consequence of the belated political unification of their native country. It also highlights that the immigrants and their offspring developed an ident…
Recent trends in the study of Italian antisemitism under the Fascist regime 1
Recent political statements have revitalized the debate over Fascist antisemitism and the response by Italians to Benito Mussolini’s anti-Jewish campaign. Luconi offers an overview of the current reassessment of the attitude of Italians towards Jews during Il Duce’s rule in English- and Italian-language scholarship. Contrary to previous findings that have tended to emphasize the Italian people’s effective contribution to efforts to help Jews unde…
Becoming Italian in the US: Through the Lens of Life Narratives
Journal Article Becoming Italian in the US: Through the Lens of Life Narratives Get access Stefano Luconi Stefano Luconi 1University of Florence, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 151–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141848 Published: 01 September 2004
"La "Diplomazia parallela: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel Diplomacy": The Fascist Regime and the Political Mobilization of Italian Americans)
Journal Article La “Diplomaziaparallela”: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani (“Parallel diplomacy”: The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: Franco-Angeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
The Machine Boss as a Symbolic Leader
While research on collective memory has progressively gotten a footing in historical studies, scholars of oral history have become more and more interested in the meanings of the distortions of people's recollections.' Indeed, the awareness that memory is not reproduced, but socially and culturally constructed by reorganizations, omissions, and manipulations has made the discrepancies between factual events and reminiscences more insightful than …
Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952-1996
Journal Article Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952–1996. By Robert W. Speel. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii, 218 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01784-8.) Get access Stefano Luconi Stefano Luconi University of Florence, Florence, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, …
The influence of the Italo‐Ethiopian conflict and the second world war on Italian‐American voters: The case of Philadelphia
Philadelphia's Italian‐Americans were much concerned at the attitude of the US government towards Italy. Still, it was only after the outbreak of the war between the United States and Italy that US foreign policy became the main determinant of their voting behaviour and caused the establishment of a Republican majority in their community in 1942. The alleged mishandling of Italy by the Roosevelt administration after the armistice and charges that…
The influence of the Italo‐Ethiopian conflict and the second world war on Italian‐American voters: The case of Philadelphia
Philadelphia's Italian‐Americans were much concerned at the attitude of the US government towards Italy. Still, it was only after the outbreak of the war between the United States and Italy that US foreign policy became the main determinant of their voting behaviour and caused the establishment of a Republican majority in their community in 1942. The alleged mishandling of Italy by the Roosevelt administration after the armistice and charges that…
Anticommunism, Americanization, and Ethnic Identity: Italian Americans and the 1948 Parliamentary Elections in Italy
(1999). Anticommunism, Americanization, and Ethnic Identity: Italian Americans and the 1948 Parliamentary Elections in Italy. The Historian: Vol. 62, No. 2, pp. 285-302
The Machine Boss as a Symbolic Leader
While research on collective memory has progressively gotten a footing in historical studies, scholars of oral history have become more and more interested in the meanings of the distortions of people's recollections.' Indeed, the awareness that memory is not reproduced, but socially and culturally constructed by reorganizations, omissions, and manipulations has made the discrepancies between factual events and reminiscences more insightful than …
Mafia-Related Prejudice and the Rise of Italian Americans in the United States
Italian immigrants to the United States and their offspring have long been the target of prejudicial accusations concerning their allegedly prominent role in criminal activities. This article investigates the influence of such an ethnic bias on their political ascent. Although politicians of Italian descent have benefitted from connections to gangsters and racketeers, especially in the Prohibition years, underworld-related charges have for the mo…
Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952-1996
Journal Article Changing Patterns of Voting in the Northern United States: Electoral Realignment, 1952–1996. By Robert W. Speel. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998. xii, 218 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-271-01784-8.) Get access Stefano Luconi Stefano Luconi University of Florence, Florence, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, …
Building Little Italy: Philadelphia's Italians before Mass Migration
The response of Italian Americans to Fascist antisemitism
Conventional scholarly wisdom has it that most Italian Americans in the United States were loyal supporters of the policies of Fascism in the inter-war years but eventually rejected the antisemitic measures that Benito Mussolini's regime adopted in their ancestral country in 1938. Contrary to such an interpretation, Luconi argues that many Italian Americans themselves held antisemitic attitudes and, therefore, did not distance themselves from Fas…
"La "Diplomazia parallela: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani ("Parallel Diplomacy": The Fascist Regime and the Political Mobilization of Italian Americans)
Journal Article La “Diplomaziaparallela”: Il regime fascista e la mobilitazione politica degli Italo-Americani (“Parallel diplomacy”: The Fascist regime and the political mobilization of Italian Americans). By Stefano Luconi. (Milan: Franco-Angeli, 2000. 157 pp. Paper, Lit 30,000, ISBN 88-464-2179-5.) In Italian Get access Fraser Ottanelli Fraser Ottanelli University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadephia
The community study has been a mainstay of immigration history. In recent years, however, immigration historians have been moving away from this model, particularly as the emphasis in the field has shifted from understanding community organization and work life, for example, to the construction of ethnic identity and whiteness studies. The innovation of Stefano Luconi's treatment of Philadelphia's Italians is in how it uses the familiar community…
Forging an Ethnic Identity: The Case of Italian Americans
L’esprit de clocher caracterisa les immigres italiens aux Etats-Unis entre la fin du xixe siecle et la Premiere Guerre mondiale. Au cours des deux decennies suivantes, la diffusion du nationalisme stimule par la guerre et par le fascisme, la fin de l’immigration de masse en provenance d’Italie, l’emergence d’une nouvelle generation d’Italo-Americains nes aux Etats-Unis et surtout la discrimination anti-italienne conduisirent les Italo-Americains …
Recent trends in the study of Italian antisemitism under the Fascist regime 1
Recent political statements have revitalized the debate over Fascist antisemitism and the response by Italians to Benito Mussolini’s anti-Jewish campaign. Luconi offers an overview of the current reassessment of the attitude of Italians towards Jews during Il Duce’s rule in English- and Italian-language scholarship. Contrary to previous findings that have tended to emphasize the Italian people’s effective contribution to efforts to help Jews unde…
Becoming Italian in the US: Through the Lens of Life Narratives
Journal Article Becoming Italian in the US: Through the Lens of Life Narratives Get access Stefano Luconi Stefano Luconi 1University of Florence, Italy Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 151–164, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141848 Published: 01 September 2004
Book Reivew: Mussolini's Fascist Philosopher. Giovanni Gentile Reconsidered
Book Reivew: A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Culture from Post-Unification to the Present
The Venom of Racial Intolerance: Italian Americans and Jews in the United States in the Aftermath of Fascist Racial Laws
Cet article analyse l’impact des lois antisémites promulguées par Benito Mussolini en 1938 sur les relations interethniques entre les immigrés juifs et italiens aux États-Unis. Contrairement à l’opinion généralement admise, il démontre que, à de rares exceptions près, nombreux furent les Italo-Américains qui soutinrent les lois raciales fascistes. Les rivalités socioéconomiques opposant dès les années vingt les immigrés juifs et italiens aux État…
The Impact of Italy's Twentieth-Century Wars on Italian Americans’ Ethnic Identity
War-related nationalism helped Italian Americans re-elaborate their ethnic identity between the turn of the twentieth century and the end of World War II. Although most Italian immigrants and their offspring lacked some sense of national consciousness upon arrival in the United States, they developed it following Italy's 1912 conquest of Libya. They also consolidated their national identity during World War I, strengthened that self-perception af…
Ethnic Allegiance and Class Consciousness among Italian-American Workers, 1900–1941
In a recent attempt to outline a periodization for the history of Italian-American radicalism in the United States, Gerald Meyer and the late Philip V. Cannistraro have suggested that the pre-World
La faglia dell'antisemitismo: Italiani ed ebrei negli Stati Uniti, 1920-1941 (The Fault of Anti-Semitism: Italians and Jews in the United States, 1920-1941)
Italian-American Workers and the Shortcomings of Transculturalism before World War II
Solidarity among workers, regardless of national origin, is supposed to shape the struggle of the class-conscious proletariat. Yet Italian-American laborers in the United States retained an Italy-centered culture which prevented them from establishing stable coalitions with other minorities; it also helped pro-Fascist sentiments make inroads into their ranks, and contributed to the spreading of anti-Semitism after the passing of Mussolini’s anti-…
Guido Piovene Nell' America Di Truman
Questo articolo esamina le considerazioni espresse da Guido Piovene nel De America (1953) sulla situazione politica degli Stati Uniti all'inizio degli anni Cinquanta. Nonostante il maccartismo, le tensioni razziali, un pesante clima antisindacale e i crescenti condizionamenti delle lobbies sul sistema politico, lo scrittore formulò un giudizio sostanzialmente positivo sulla società americana e sul suo livello di democraticità. Tale valutazione, p…
Discrimination and Identity Construction: The Case of Italian Immigrants and their Offspring in the USA
This paper applies the concept of ethnicity as a social and cultural construction to the experience of Italian Americans in the USA. It shows that the newcomers who arrived from the Italian peninsula in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revealed a localistic sense of belonging as a consequence of the belated political unification of their native country. It also highlights that the immigrants and their offspring developed an ident…
Il ritorno del «bardo della libertà» Considerazioni in margine a una recente collettanea su Arturo Giovannitti
Emigration and Italians’ transnational radical politicization
Scholarship has long suggested that, in the decades of mass migration, Italian subversives were part of a global network based on the worldwide circulation of radical ideas and activists. Yet historiography has studied such dynamics mainly in the receiving countries and has tended to overlook the Italian side of those interactions. This article examines Italian migrants’ development of political and labor militancy in a transnational perspective.…
Fabrizio Amore Bianco, Il cantiere di Bottai: La scuola corporativa pisana e la formazione della classe dirigente fascista
Umberto Gentiloni Silveri, Contro scettici e disfattisti: Gli anni di Ciampi, 1992–2006
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