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Columbus Day: Natives, Italian Americans divided over explorer's legacy
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Columbus Day is highlighting the divide between those who treasure the explorer as a representative of Italian Americans’ history and those mortified by annual tributes that ignore the native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.
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Columbus Day is highlighting the divide between those who treasure the explorer as a representative of Italian Americans’ history and those mortified by annual tributes that ignore the native people whose lives and culture were forever changed by colonialism.
The making of Columbus Day involved much glorification of the Italian explorer, including some historical inaccuracies. But Christopher Columbus also became the face of a celebration of Italian heritage, amid discrimination in the U.S.
Given Italian history, U.S. descendants of Italian immigrants have reason to reject their association with Columbus and stand in solidarity with indigenous groups as they reclaim their histories.
My Italian heritage is a mammoth part of my identity. You wouldn't know it from my last name, but I descend from a long line of men and women who have vowels at the end of their own. They painted frescoes on the ceiling of St. Peter, taught the world that the Earth revolved around...
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