02835nam 2200553 a 450 991078125540332120230721010219.00-8214-4361-5(CKB)2550000000036482(EBL)1743661(OCoLC)742512947(SSID)ssj0000535410(PQKBManifestationID)11375480(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535410(PQKBWorkID)10520182(PQKB)11066952(MiAaPQ)EBC1743661(MdBmJHUP)muse9497(Au-PeEL)EBL1743661(CaPaEBR)ebr10472447(EXLCZ)99255000000003648220090922d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrContours of white ethnicity[electronic resource] popular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America /Yiorgos AnagnostouAthens, Ohio Ohio University Pressc20091 online resource (297 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1820-3 0-8214-1821-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 toGreek AmericansEthnic identityWhite peopleRace identityUnited StatesGreek AmericansEthnic identity.White peopleRace identity305.809Anagnostou Yiorgos1464418MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781255403321Contours of white ethnicity3674039UNINA