Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture Julie Reeves and uses of sport changed

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Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture Julie Reeves and uses of sport changedItalian American studies has long been in conversation with American culture at large and is increasingly present in American universities and colleges. Yet once celebrated works, such as Pietro di Donato's Christ in Concrete, have slipped from the public consciousness, and many scholars fear that representations of Italian Americans in popular culture, as in The Godfather films and the television series The Sopranos, have obscured genuine historical