Aspects of Greek-American Ethnic Identity
Title | Aspects of Greek-American Ethnic Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Maria George Nicolaidis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Greek Americans |
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The Religion of Ethnicity
Title | The Religion of Ethnicity PDF eBook |
Author | Gary A. Kunkelman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2019-03-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429663013 |
The integrative role of religion has been a recurrent theme of sociological and anthropological theory. This role is apparent in the Greek-American community; religion functions as a cement of the social fabric. Indeed, it would be hard to overestimate the role of Greek Orthodoxy in joining people of Greek ancestry into a community and reinforcing their sense of ethnic identity. The nature of ethnic identity and the church’s role in fostering and sustaining it are subjects of this study, first published in 1990. In ultimately focusing on the interplay between church, community and individual, the book suggests that understanding the relation of these people to their church is to understand them as a people.
Greek Americans
Title | Greek Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Peter C. Moskos |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1351516701 |
This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. Blending sociological insight with historical detail, Peter C. and Charles C. Moskos trace the Greek-American experience from the wave of mass immigration in the early 1900s to today. This is the story of immigrants, most of whom worked hard to secure middle-class status. It is also the story of their children and grandchildren, many of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of America's most successful ethnic groups.As the authors rightly note, the true measure of Greek-Americans is the immigrants themselves who came to America without knowing the language and without education. They raised solid families in the new country and shouldered responsibilities for those in the old. They laid the basis for an enduring Greek-American community.Included in this completely revised edition is an introduction by Michael Dukakis and chapters relating to the early struggles of Greeks in America, the Greek Orthodox Church, success in America, and the survival and expansion of Greek identity despite intermarriage. This work will be of value to scholars of ethnic studies, those interested in Greek culture and communities, and sociologists and historians.
Ethnic Identification
Title | Ethnic Identification PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Misner Collins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Navigating between the shoals of assimilation and acculturation, Dr Collins finds in the Greek community of Houston a group that has been less affected by the host community than sociologists insist happens, and in turn only marginally impressing its ways on the Americans around it. This strong sense of community derives not so much from continued contacts with Greece, but from shared cultural features within the ethnic group itself - language, religion, marriage structures, festivals, etc. These findings support the view of a pluralistic society in America rather than the long prevalent assimilationist view which holds that immigrants automatically mix and lose much of their ethnic identity: the melting-pot theory. This study proposes that Greek-Americans in the society examined are not so much trying to be more American but less Greek in certain respects: e.g., community provincialism and narrowmindedness. The study is supported by illustrations, notes, appendices (including a Greek glossary), bibliography and index.
Studies on Greek Americans
Title | Studies on Greek Americans PDF eBook |
Author | George A. Kourvetaris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780880333771 |
This reader combines theory and research in the study of Greek-American ethnicity and identity. It includes chapters on the histories of early and late immigrants, first- and second-generation Greeks in Chicago, Greek Orthodox and Greek American identity, and Greek-American entrepreneurs. It also discusses continuity and change in the Greek American experience and examines the past, present and future of Greek American ethnicity within the larger framework of multiculturalism.
Greek American Ethnic Identity in Young Adulthood
Title | Greek American Ethnic Identity in Young Adulthood PDF eBook |
Author | George Thomas Karabakakis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Greek Americans |
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The Greek Americans
Title | The Greek Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Scourby |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Social Science |
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