Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies Promotes the understanding of Italian Americans and Greek Americans through the study of their interactions and juxtapositions. Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation contributes to U.S. ethnic and immigration studies by bringing into conversation scholars working in the fields of Italian American and Greek American studies in the United States, Europe, and Australia. The work moves beyond the “single group” approach—an approach that privileges the study of ethnic singularity––to explore instead two ethnic groups in relation to each other in the broader context of the United States. The chapters bring into focus transcultural interfaces and inquire comparatively about similarities and differences in cultural representations associated with these two groups. This co-edited volume contributes to the fields of transcultural and comparative studies. The book is multi-disciplinary. It features scholarship from the perspectives of architecture, ethnomusicology, education, history, cultural and literary studies, and film studies, as well as whiteness studies. It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American political culture as well as that of popular culture, including visual representations (documentary, film, TV series) and “low brow” crime fiction. It includes analysis of literature. It involves comparative work on religious architecture, transoceanic circulation of racialized categories, translocal interconnections in the formation of pan-Mediterranean identities, and the making of the immigrant past in documentaries from Italian and Greek filmmakers. This volume is the first of its kind in initiating a multidisciplinary transcultural and comparative study across European Americans.
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Preface: Una faccia, una razza / μια φάτσα μια ράτσα: More to It Than Meets the Eye | vii Fred L. Gardaphé Introduction: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation | 1 Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, and Theodora Patrona Part I: Constructing, Historicizing, and Contesting Identities “Dirty Dagoes” Respond: A Transnational History of a Racial Slur | 23 Andonis Piperoglou A Greek American Vice President? The View from the Italian American Community | 46 Stefano Luconi Mediterranean Americans to Themselves | 72 Jim Cocola Part II: Identity Construction in Two Ethnic Communities Style and Real Estate: The Architecture of Faith among Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870–1925 | 105 Kostis Kourelis Ethnic Language Education: A Comparative Study of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in New York City | 141 Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei and Fevronia K. Soumakis Part III: Ethnic and Gender Identities in Literature and Music Identity, Family, and Cultural Heritage: Narrative Polymorphy in Let Me Explain You and Catina’s Haircut | 185 Eleftheria Arapoglou Ethnic Investigations of the American Crime Scene: Comparing Domenic Stansberry and George Pelecanos | 210 Francesca de Lucia Imaginative Living in Mediterranean New England | 238 Panayotis League Part IV: Ethnic Identities and Visual Culture An Ethnic Can’t Be Like Other People? The Construction of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Kojak | 271 Sostene Massimo Zangari Irrevocable or Irreversible? Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries | 298 Yiorgos Kalogeras American(ish) Rebels: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 323 Michail C. Markodimitrakis Afterword: Beyond Methodological Singularity | 351 Donna R. Gabaccia Acknowledgments | 365 List of Contributors | 367 Index | 373
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A major contribution to ethnic studies, this book offers a much needed comparative (transnational) approach to the investigation of Italian and Greek American ethnic groups with ties across several countries. It challenges the academy’s feckless characterization of these groups as ‘white,’ European, and superficially ethnic. The contributors point out the continuing vitality of Greek and Italian American cultures and most importantly, locate their affinities in a shared Mediterranean culture of origin. The book provides a rightfully dynamic view of how ethnic subjects today actually project and symbolically deploy their identitarian negotiations in a variety of media.
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ISBN
9780823299720
Publisert
2022-05-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Biographical note

Yiorgos Anagnostou (Edited By, Introduction and notes by)
Yiorgos Anagnostou is Professor and the Director of the Modern Greek Program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America.
Yiorgos D. Kalogeras (Edited By, Introduction and notes by)
Yiorgos D. Kalogeras is Professor Emeritus of American ethnic and minority literature. He taught until his retirement (2018) at the Department of English Aristotle at University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books.
Theodora Patrona (Edited By, Introduction and notes by)
Theodora Patrona is affiliated with the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, as Special Teaching Fellow (EDIP). She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature.