Contours of White Ethnicity - Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Hardcover, Enterprise)

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 to combat racism and be used to bring about solidarity between white ethnics and racial minorities. Illuminating the importance of the past in the construction of ethnic identities today, Anagnostou presents the politics of evoking the past to create community, affirm identity, and nourish reconnection with ancestral roots, then identifies the struggles to neutralize oppres sive pasts. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, "Contours of White Ethnicity "exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2010
First published:	2009
Authors:	Yiorgos Anagnostou
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	Enterprise
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-1820-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	0-8214-1820-3
Barcode:	9780821418208

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