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    bo wUMEN Beyond Stereotyping By Daniela Gioseffi sors 2 WSLA-TY i Sina, Aah, eae ee ee eee eat Teel, Gl wel that 1d See ee pee eee aes Reruns eeesseay te ee sean wih Baton fide False Boner Netecsties onrdaning Coca RC Sate eee teu oer eae tee ee eee mae ae eae ee ee ae poimecerwe heey ee eeeuceee oar et Spe tere ae srarigneepigiet as Ieee shop ob shen ua te See eee socloetie Hac do ee eee oe ee mes ee ee Engent ate dad oy wean eel Pr es ieee be waned oe ea eae pee raion eres ee cee ea eee lee ee re tains Erie ir te tnt jr eee came eeea Tipoke get enna the nonin as Tl leat Poop ae pen ena eee Niggos Ain't pole our preacher Holy bile oot Neier pe ae fenton oe Ceri te le ny nde ck allo Gece e ae aes ONT He abed over ac ne agrees ne So eT ee niu econ cone Reece Maran Lather Hig, Je wing of nonslae obese aod eqeily Sra tracieate eaeey gorse ee ee pee Dyson h wart ar Ton bere ee Pa en ee Speeeer nee ee but didn't seem unusual to me to live and work ass black people. ['d been called a “nigger lover” in ¢ grade, for beifiending 2 “colored girl” Silvy Jacksc remember having bonded wich her because we were conly kids in our class who dida't have the 35 cents a = at other sudents brough« for milk money. Now, with menopausal hot Dashes, I'm a gray blond who tides the New York subsays at nighe - looks of bared coming ax me from tired nightshif cer who think f'm the enemy—who don’t stop wo rca, that we all suffer from hate and stercoryping, the wh earth bleeding now like a Seima mimosa blossom. (Over $0 years since thas horrible night in Selma, + quarter-cenaury's activism for peace and socal just and six published books wo my name, I'm sill noi su> exist as an Americn—because a name like “Dan GioseiS” has too many vowels or syllables for most ¢ zens © roll wippingly fom cheir tongue. Yer [grouped together with “White Europeans” asa privilcs ass. There's litle acknowledgment of the subtle form prejudice thac sl plagues USS, deizens with my Line ethnic name. “The Island of Tears” (sla delle lacrine) was what (i jan immigrant called Elis Island, and it proved for « father 2 prophetic name when he arrived trom Puglia 1913. He bad plenty of stories to tell of che epichess came bis way: “dumb guinea, greascball, dago, wc Few recall the segregetion and lynchings of “guineas, wops, and dagos”.. spaghetti bender.” He never knew 2 member of ‘Mafiz. but had to heat joke after Hollvwood smear he his ethnicity. Remember how Geraldine Ferraro, in h rrum for the vice presidency, was unjustly connected Wi the Mafia, as Mario Cuomo bas been —with not a jot evidence? Many readers might sul End it dificule 0 ¢ ‘connect an Itallan politdan from this cruel stercorype In my case, asa second generation fulian Americ woman writer, there were no critically accaimed ro models in US. Hceranare to aspire to in 2 “new git!” work, Writing for me, a for people of color, has beer continuing fight for culmiral identity. I look at the rost: of the PEN American center and recognize five or + Icalian female names (and not many more male one among the thousands, Frances Winwar, who was for’ vo change her name from "Francesca Vindguerra” in 3 der w publish her biographical novels, is as much fo. goten as Grazia Deledda, che second female wrist | Tracie Scie ss win the Nobel Prize for Literamire, ia 1926. Accom- plished ftaan American women writers Eke Maria Maz jowGillan, Diane Di Prima, Helen Barolini, Sandra Morwla-Gilbert, Phyllis Capello, Laura Storoni, Lucia Maria Perillo, Patricia Storace, and Dorothy Barresi are firiy invisible om the literary scene. Few people seem to know of Vinoria Colonna, of Marino (1492-1547), che rst European woman te publish a collection of poetzy that was widely rea! Women don’t need w hear hew important role mod- cls are to one's aspirations, yer when I've tried to broach this subjec. it's usually been pooh-poohed by generally enlightened feminists, lec alone establishment males ‘Most inceligent, educated, sensitive people (to say noth- ing of equal-oppormiry-grant applications) don’t rea ize I'm of a minoricy that was lynched by the Ku Klux Klan, along with AGican Americans and Jewish Ameri- all through the earlier part of this ccucury. Hardly anyone remembers the murders and lynching of Italians tac took place in New Orleans in 189] and continued 22 far west a1 Colorado well oa through the 1920s, or the ‘exceucion of Sacco and Vanzeui sentenced by the bigo ced Judge Thayer of Massachuseus, who dubbed the la bor actvisw “dagos™ Few are aware—and perhaps Italian Americans are ashamed wo remember—

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