Contours of white ethnicity
Subtitle: popular ethnography and the making of usable pasts in Greek America
By: Yiorgos Anagnostou.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Athens [Ohio]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780821418208; 9780821418215
Subjects: Greek Americans -- Ethnic identity; Whites -- Race identity -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics and poetics of popular ethnography: folk immigrant, ethnic, and racial pasts in history and discourse; title: Whither collective ethnic identities? White ethnics and the slippery terrain of European Americanness; title: Whose ethnic community? Gendered pasts and polyphonies of belonging; title: Interrogating ethnic whiteness, building interracial solidarity: popular ethnography as cultural critique; title: Ethnicity as choice? Roots and identity as a narrative project; title: Redirecting ethnic options: historical routes of heritage.