A scene from "Passione", a 2010 documentary film directed by John Turturro
"Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge", John Gennari. (University of Chicago Press)
Associate Professor of English and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Vermont, John Gennari- Italian men, like black men, were feared, reviled, denigrated ... they were also progenitors of a new and exciting modern culture of physical expressiveness.