Richard Gambino, 84, Dies; Fought Discrimination Against Italian Americans

Richard Gambino, 84, Dies; Fought Discrimination Against Italian Americans

The New York Times-NY·2024-02-10 06:02

Richard Gambino, the chairman of the first academic Italian American studies program in the United States and a leading critic of those who reflexively viewed Italian Americans as Mafiosi and mocked them with ethnic stereotypes in popular culture, died on Jan. 12 at his home in Southampton, N.Y. He was 84.

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