What troubles De Stefano and other cultural critics whose views he surveys here is that these images of Italian-Americans as Mafia godfathers, wiseguys, goodfellas and goombahs acquire their glamour by reinforcing pernicious clichés about Italian-Americans as mobbed-up guys. Adding irony to indignity, De Stefano (who has written for The Nation and Film Comment) points out that "it is often Italian-Americans themselves who write, direct and act in these films and TV shows, which makes Italian-American stereotyping different from that of other groups."
I can hear Tom scurrying to Amazon now.
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Oh, so now I "scurry"? Like an animal, huh?
Once again Derek dehumanizes the other in his attempt to facilitate the perpetuation of the reified white protestant phallologocentric mastered capitalist western discourse and preclude the creation of the liberated anarchic collective. Big jerk.
The truth hurts, don't it?
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