When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there. — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
When you have a small town where all of a sudden there's 3,000 black people living in a neighborhood where there were never black… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America,… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
When the Romani people came and settled in Gioia Tauro in the '60s and the '70s, they took over a neighborhood much like Africans… — Jonas Carpignano Copy Share Image
