Contours of white ethnicity : popular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America / Yiorgos Anagnostou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anagnostou, Yiorgos.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek Americans--Ethnic identity.

Greek Americans.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. Interdisciplinary in scope, Contours of White Ethnicity uses the example of Greek America to illustrate how the immigrant past can be used to

Contents:

The politics and poetics of popular ethnography : folk immigrant, ethnic, and racial pasts in history and discourse

Whither collective ethnic identities? White ethnics and the slippery terrain of European Americanness

Whose ethnic community? Gendered pasts and polyphonies of belonging

Interrogating ethnic whiteness, building interracial solidarity : popular ethnography as cultural critique

Ethnicity as choice? Roots and identity as a narrative project

Redirecting ethnic options : historical routes of heritage.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821443613

0821443615

OCLC:

742512947