Redirecting Ethnic Singularity

Yiorgos Anagnostou (Edited By, Introduction and notes by) Yiorgos Anagnostou is Professor and the Director of the Modern Greek Program at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America.Yiorgos D. Kalogeras (Edited By, Introduction and notes by) Yiorgos D. Kalogeras is Professor Emeritus of American ethnic and minority literature. He taught until his retirement (2018) at the Department of English Aristotle at University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books.Theodora Patrona (Edited By, Introduction and notes by) Theodora Patrona is affiliated with the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece, as Special Teaching Fellow (EDIP). She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature.

• Preface: Una faccia, una razza / μια φάτσα μια ράτσα: More to It Than Meets the Eye viiFred L. GardaphéIntroduction: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation 1Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, and Theodora PatronaPart I: Constructing, Historicizing, and Contesting Identities"Dirty Dagoes" Respond: A Transnational History of a Racial Slur 23Andonis PiperoglouA Greek American Vice President? The View from the Italian American Community 46Stefano LuconiMediterranean Americans to Themselves 72Jim CocolaPart II: Identity Construction in Two Ethnic CommunitiesStyle and Real Estate: The Architecture of Faith among Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870–1925 105Kostis KourelisEthnic Language Education:A Comparative Study of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in New York City 141Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei and Fevronia K. SoumakisPart III: Ethnic and Gender Identities in Literature and MusicIdentity, Family, and Cultural Heritage:Narrative Polymorphy in Let Me Explain You and Catina's Haircut 185Eleftheria ArapoglouEthnic Investigations of the American Crime Scene:Comparing Domenic Stansberry and George Pelecanos 210Francesca de LuciaImaginative Living in Mediterranean New England 238Panayotis LeaguePart IV: Ethnic Identities and Visual CultureAn Ethnic Can't Be Like Other People?The Construction of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Kojak 271Sostene Massimo ZangariIrrevocable or Irreversible?Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries 298Yiorgos KalogerasAmerican(ish) Rebels: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 323Michail C. MarkodimitrakisAfterword: Beyond Methodological Singularity 351Donna R. GabacciaAcknowledgments 365List of Contributors 367Index 373