Redirecting Ethnic Singularity : Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation

Anagnostou, Yiorgos (EDT); Kalogeras, Yiorgos D. (EDT); Patrona, Theodora (EDT); Arapoglou, Eleftheria (CON); Balodimas-bartolomei, Angelyn (CON)

ISBN 10: 0823299724 / ISBN 13: 9780823299720

Published by Fordham University Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Redirecting Ethnic Singularity : Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823299724
• ISBN 13: 9780823299720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies
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.

About the Authors

Yiorgos Anagnostou is Professor and the Director of the Modern Greek Program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America.

Yiorgos D. Kalogeras is Professor Emeritus of American ethnic and minority literature. He taught until his retirement (2018) at the Department of English Aristotle at University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books.

Theodora Patrona is affiliated with the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, as Special Teaching Fellow (EDIP). She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature.

Eleftheria Arapoglou has been teaching in the American Studies department at UC Davis since 2012. Before that she taught at Aristotle University and Anatolia College in Greece. She has received several fellowships and scholarships from the Fulbright Program, the Friends of the Princeton University Library, and the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, among others. She has coedited six volumes and has contributed as an assistant editor to two special issues of the journal GRAMMA. Her monograph A Bridge over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of “Women’s Orients” was published by Gorgias Press in 2011, while her most recent publications are Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation (Routledge, 2013) and Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei is a professor in the School of Education at North Park University–Chicago and coordinator of the ESL/Bilingual Teachers Endorsement and MALLC programs. In both Greece and America, she earned degrees in Greek studies and social work; Greek pedagogy; linguistics/ESL; and comparative international education and policy studies. Having received numerous grants, Angie has performed extensive studies on Greek Americans and Italian Americans, southern Italian Griki, Greek Romaniote Jews, and the endangered Colognoro dialect of Tuscany. She has also examined Holocaust education in Greece, anti-Mafia education, Italian images in foreign language textbooks, and Italian American statue makers. Her latest work focuses on the Greek communities of Europe.