Anagnostou, Yiorgos

Contours of white ethnicity : popular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America / Yiorgos Anagnostou. - Athens [Ohio] : Ohio University Press, 2009. - xi, 284 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 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.

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Greek Americans--Ethnic identity
Whites--Race identity--United States

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