Winner: Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in
Modern Greek Studies
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, and film studies, as
well as whiteness studies. It examines the production of ethnicity in
the context of American political culture as well as that of 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.
