| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Critical studies in Italian America |
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Critical studies in Italian America.
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| Contents |
Style and Real Estate: The Architecture of Faith among Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870-1925 -- Ethnic Language Education: A Comparative Study of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in New York City -- Part III. Ethnic and Gender Identities in Literature and Music -- Identity, Family, and Cultural Heritage: Narrative Polymorphy in Let Me Explain You and Catina's Haircut -- Ethnic Investigations of the American Crime Scene: Comparing Domenic Stansberry and George Pelecanos -- Imaginative Living in Mediterranean New England -- Part IV. Ethnic Identities and Visual Culture |
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An Ethnic Can't Be Like Other People? The Construction of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Kojak -- Irrevocable or Irreversible? Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries -- American(ish) Rebels: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- Afterword: Beyond Methodological Singularity -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Series |
| Summary |
"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, film studies as well as whiteness studies. It examines the production of ethnicity in the context of American political culture as well as 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Comparative ethnic studies |
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European Americans |
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Greek American history and culture |
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Italian American history and culture |
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ethnic whiteness |
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transnational ethnic studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022) |
| Subject |
Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Greek Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Immigrants -- United States.
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HISTORY / United States / General
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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Ethnic relations
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Greek Americans -- Ethnic identity
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Immigrants
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Italian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anagnostou, Yiorgos, editor.
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Kalogeras, Yiorgos, editor.
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Patrona, Theodora D., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780823299744 |
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0823299740 |
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9781531500689 |
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1531500684 |
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