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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452842703321

Autore

Frangos Stavros

Titolo

Greeks in Michigan [[electronic resource] /] / Stavros K. Frangos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-87013-914-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (94 p.)

Collana

Discovering the peoples of Michigan

Disciplina

977.4/004893

Soggetti

Greek Americans - Michigan - History

Greek Americans - Michigan - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Michigan Ethnic relations

Michigan Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-77) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Greece and the American Imagination; The Greek War of Independence: The 1821 Detroit Press Coverage; Going to the "Ksentia": The Mass Migration, 1891-1921; Greek Communities in Michigan; Public Presentations of Ethnicity; The Man with the Branded Hand; American-Greek Society in Michigan, 2001 and Beyond; Notes; For Further Reference; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The influence of Greek culture on Michigan began long before the first Greeks arrived. The American settlers of the Old Northwest Territory had definite notions of Greeks and Greek culture. America and its developing society and culture were to be the ""New Athens,"" a locale where the resurgence in the values and ideals of classical Greece were to be reborn. Stavros K. Frangos describes how such preconceptions and the competing desires to retain heritage and to assimilate have shaped the Greek experience in Michigan. From the padrone system to the church communities, Greek institut