Richard Gambino
Richard Ignatius Gambino (May 5, 1939 – January 12, 2024) was an American author and educator. A professor emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York, Gambino pioneered the field of Italian-American studies in the 1970s. He is the author of Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian Americans (1974) and co-founder of Italian Americana, a peer-reviewed cultural/historical journal devoted to the Italian-American experience.
Biography
Richard Gambino grew up in the
In 1973, Gambino founded the Italian-American Studies program at CUNY/Queens College.[3] It was the first known offering of its kind in the United States.[4] He published a study of the Italian-American experience titled Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian Americans in 1974; it was well received and has become a classic text. That same year, he co-founded Italian Americana with Ernest Falbo and Bruno Arcudi.[5]
In 1999,
Gambino died on January 12, 2024, at the age of 84.[6]
Published works
- Freedom and Integrated Personality in Spinoza's Ethics (1965)
- Concepts of Mental Disorder and Criminal Responsibility in Law (1968)
- Introduction to Nietzsche the Thinker: A Study by William M. Salter (1968)[7]
- Crime and Punishment: Toward a Policy for Our Time (1969)
- Blood of My Blood: The Dilemma of the Italian Americans (1974)
- A Guide to Ethnic Studies Programs in American Colleges, Universities and Schools (1975)
- Vendetta (1977)
- Bread and Roses (1981)
- Italian-American Studies and Italian-Americans at CUNY: Report and Recommendations (1987)
- Racing with Catastrophe: Rescuing America's Higher Education (1990)
- Multicultural Education: Will Extremists Destroy the Dream? (1992)
- Italian American Autobiographies, contributor (1993)
- Camerado & the Trial of Pius XII : two plays (2013)
See also
References
- ^ Mangione, Jerre (June 16, 1974). "The image is unclear". The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ a b "Richard Gambino". Guernica Editions. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ "Italian-American Studies Courses". Queens College, CUNY. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ "40 Years of Italian American Studies at Queens College". Queens College. March 26, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
- ^ "History of Italian Americana". Youngstown State University. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
- ^ Richard Gambino of Southampton Dies January 12
- ^ "Nietzsche the thinker : a study / William Mackintire Salter ; introduction by Richard Gambino". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
External links
- "Oral History: Richard Gambino, Italian-American, talks about growing up in Red Hook in the 1950s". Red Hook Water Stories. 2013.