In 1961 the peace activist and anti-mafia campaigner Danilo Dolci spoke at a protest event at the Italian centennial of unification celebrations hosted by the City of Philadelphia. The reactions to the talk he gave on development initiatives in Western Sicily provide some insight into the transnational discussion that was developing around the mafia, governance and leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Dolci and his supporters made the suggestion that the problems encountered by the post-war governments in Italy, Sicily and Philadelphia were a result of leaderships which presented or made the appearance of change but did not fix the underlying problems. This article maps how the conversation developed, why the idea of the mafia as a ‘thing’, an operating criminal organisation with Sicilian origins, was such an important narrative, and what it meant for those trying to make a claim to leadership positions.

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意大利裔美国人关于黑手党的对话：Danilo Dolci 参观费城 1961 年的意大利节

1961 年，和平活动家和反黑手党活动家达尼洛·多尔奇 (Danilo Dolci) 在费城市举办的意大利统一百年庆典的抗议活动上发表讲话。对他关于西西里岛西部发展倡议的演讲的反应为 1950 年代末和 1960 年代初围绕黑手党、治理和领导力展开的跨国讨论提供了一些见解。多尔奇和他的支持者认为，战后意大利、西西里岛和费城政府遇到的问题是领导层提出或表面上发生变化但没有解决根本问题的结果。这篇文章描绘了对话是如何发展的，为什么黑手党作为一种“东西”，一个起源于西西里的​​犯罪组织，是一个如此重要的叙述，