Finding my way / Louise DeSalvo — My aunts taught me to dance / Regina Barreca — The edge of night / Frank Lentricchia — Mysteries of the hyphen : poetry, pasta, and identity politics / Sandra M. Gilbert — Respect / Alane Salierno Mason — Origins of a nonfiction writer / Gay Talese — Scents : a selection from a memoir of Italian American life / Maria Laurino — Amalfi days / Jay Parini — Of cheese and choices / Claire Gaudiani — Shadows in the garden : poets of loss, Italian/American style / Mary Cappello — What Grandma knew / John Agresto — On being white, female, and born in Bensonhurst / Marianna De Marco Torgovnick — What is Italian American poetry? / Dana Gioia — Breaking and entering : an Italian American's literary odyssey / Fred L. Gardaphe — Rethinking the Italian/American writer : Tony Ardizzone's expressive stories of The evening news / Anthony J. Tamburri — 'A song from the ghetto' / Edvige Giunta — Italian Americans and American politics / Michael Barone — Cryptoethnicity / Linda Hutcheon — The way of the WASP / A. Kenneth Ciongoli — Italian Americans address America's problems : families and children in the twenty-first century / Matilda Cuomo — The crisis of Italian American identity / Richard Gambino — The 80th street Mafia / Joseph V. Scelsa — Are Italian Americans just white folks? / Rudolph J. Vecoli.