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Greek Americans
| Author | : Charles C. Moskos |
| Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1412824834 |
This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans--their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. This is the story of immigrants, their children and grandchildren, most of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of this country's most successful ethnic groups.
The Greek Orthodox Church in America
| Author | : Alexander Kitroeff |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2020-06-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501749447 |
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.
A Guide to Greek Traditions and Customs in America
| Author | : Marilyn Rouvelas |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.
Greek Music in America
| Author | : Tina Bucuvalas |
| Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2018-11-26 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1496819748 |
Winner of the 2019 Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies Contributions by Tina Bucuvalas, Anna Caraveli, Aydin Chaloupka, Sotirios (Sam) Chianis, Frank Desby, Stavros K. Frangos, Stathis Gauntlett, Joseph G. Graziosi, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Michael G. Kaloyanides, Panayotis League, Roderick Conway Morris, National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage Fellows, Nick Pappas, Meletios Pouliopoulos, Anthony Shay, David Soffa, Dick Spottswood, Jim Stoynoff, and Anna Lomax Wood Despite a substantial artistic legacy, there has never been a book devoted to Greek music in America until now. Those seeking to learn about this vibrant and exciting music were forced to seek out individual essays, often published in obscure or ephemeral sources. This volume provides a singular platform for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays and profiles written by principal scholars in the field. Greece developed a rich variety of traditional, popular, and art music that diasporic Greeks brought with them to America. In Greek American communities, music was and continues to be an essential component of most social activities. Music links the past to the present, the distant to the near, and bonds the community with an embrace of memories and narrative. From 1896 to 1942, more than a thousand Greek recordings in many genres were made in the United States, and thousands more have appeared since then. These encompass not only Greek traditional music from all regions, but also emerging urban genres, stylistic changes, and new songs of social commentary. Greek Music in America includes essays on all of these topics as well as history and genre, places and venues, the recording business, and profiles of individual musicians. This book is required reading for anyone who cares about Greek music in America, whether scholar, fan, or performer.
Redirecting Ethnic Singularity
| Author | : Yiorgos Anagnostou |
| Publisher | : Fordham University Press |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2022-05-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0823299740 |
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.
Studies on Greek Americans
| Author | : George A. Kourvetaris |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This reader combines theory and research in the study of Greek-American ethnicity and identity. It includes chapters on the histories of early and late immigrants, first- and second-generation Greeks in Chicago, Greek Orthodox and Greek American identity, and Greek-American entrepreneurs. It also discusses continuity and change in the Greek American experience and examines the past, present and future of Greek American ethnicity within the larger framework of multiculturalism.
Contours of White Ethnicity
| Author | : Yiorgos Anagnostou |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2009-11-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0821443615 |
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 combat racism and be used to bring about solidarity between white ethnics and racial minorities. Illuminating the importance of the past in the construction of ethnic identities today, Anagnostou presents the politics of evoking the past to create community, affirm identity, and nourish reconnection with ancestral roots, then identifies the struggles to neutralize oppressive pasts. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, Contours of White Ethnicity exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities.
Educating Greek Americans
| Author | : Fevronia K. Soumakis |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2020-05-19 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3030398277 |
This edited collection considers Greek American formal and informal educational efforts, institutions, and programs, broadly conceived, as they evolved over time throughout the United States. The book’s focus on Greek Americans aims to highlight the vast array of educational responses to local needs and contexts as this distinct, yet, heterogeneous immigrant community sought to maintain its linguistic, cultural, and religious heritage for over one hundred years. The chapters in this volume amend the scholarly literature that thus far has not only overlooked Greek American educational initiatives, but has also neglected to recognize and analyze the community’s persistence in sustaining them. This book is an important contribution to an understanding of Greek Americans’ long overdue history as a significant diaspora community within an American context.
The Greek Americans
| Author | : Alice Scourby |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780805784237 |
