LEADER 02835nam 2200553 a 450 001 9910781255403321 005 20230721010219.0 010 $a0-8214-4361-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036482 035 $a(EBL)1743661 035 $a(OCoLC)742512947 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11375480 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520182 035 $a(PQKB)11066952 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1743661 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9497 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1743661 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472447 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036482 100 $a20090922d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aContours of white ethnicity$b[electronic resource] $epopular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America /$fYiorgos Anagnostou 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1820-3 311 $a0-8214-1821-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aGreek Americans$xEthnic identity 606 $aWhite people$xRace identity$zUnited States 615 0$aGreek Americans$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aWhite people$xRace identity 676 $a305.809 700 $aAnagnostou$b Yiorgos$01464418 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781255403321 996 $aContours of white ethnicity$93674039 997 $aUNINA