Redirecting ethnic singularity : Italian Americans and Greek Americans in conversation / Yiorgos Anagnostou [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anagnostou, Yiorgos, author.

Series:

Critical studies in Italian America.

Critical Studies in Italian America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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, film studies as well as whiteness studies. It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American political culture as well as 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Una faccia, una razza / μια φάτσα μια ράτσα: More to It Than Meets the Eye

Introduction: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation

Part I. Constructing, Historicizing, and Contesting Identities

“Dirty Dagoes” Respond A Transnational History of a Racial Slur

A Greek American Vice President? The View from the Italian American Community

Mediterranean Americans to Themselves

Part II. Identity Construction in Two Ethnic Communities

Style and Real Estate. The Architecture of Faith among Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870–1925

Ethnic Language Education: A Comparative Study of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in New York City

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

Ethnic Investigations of the American Crime Scene. Comparing Domenic Stansberry and George Pelecanos

Imaginative Living in Mediterranean New England

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

Irrevocable or Irreversible? Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries

American(ish) Rebels. Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Afterword: Beyond Methodological Singularity

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-9974-0

0-8232-9973-2

OCLC:

1308391752