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Contours of White Ethnicity - Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Paperback, Parental Adviso)
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Contours of White Ethnicity - Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Paperback, Parental Adviso)
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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.
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