Modern Greek Studies Association

The Greek American Studies Resource Portal

The Modern Greek Studies Association's Transnational Studies Committee welcomes you to the Greek American Studies Resource Portal. The creation of this Resource Portal grew out of the expressed desire by academics, students and cultural producers alike to provide information on research, activities, and resources in the field of Greek American Studies broadly defined.

The Portal includes:

Academic publications on Greek America, including book reviews.
Non-academic publications on Greek America, including autobiographies, community histories, fiction, poetry, photography, painting, etc.
Essays, articles, and book reviews published in the media
Films and documentaries
Updates and announcements of current oral history work undertaken in academic institutions as well as in Greek American communities
Research queries regarding Greek American topics

We request scholars, writers, artists and other cultural producers whose work explores the Greek world in the United States and/or the connections between Greece and the United States (repatriated Greek Americans, Greek films on Greek America, Greek writings about Greek Americans, etc.) to submit the full citation of their work in MLA format, including a two to three sentence description of their work. This portal will be periodically updated to highlight the most recent resources available in the field and all selections will be archived here.

Yiorgos Anagnostou, The Ohio State University anagnostou.1@osu.edu

Peter Jeffreys, Suffolk University, peter.jeffreys@suffolk.edu

Co-chairs, Transnational Studies Committee.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

a) Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.

This book “explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. Interdisciplinary in scope, Contours of White Ethnicity uses the example of Greek America to illustrate how the immigrant past can be used to combat racism and be used to bring about solidarity between white ethnics and racial minorities. Illuminating the importance of the past in the construction of ethnic identities today, Anagnostou presents the politics of evoking the past to create community, affirm identity, and nourish reconnection with ancestral roots, then identifies the struggles to neutralize oppressive pasts. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, Contours of White Ethnicity exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities.”

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Against Cultural Loss: Immigration, Life History, and the Enduring Vernacular.” Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity. Ed. Katerina Zacharia. London: Ashgate, 2008. 335+.

An anthropological reading of Helen Papanikolas's Emily-George that concentrates on the biographer's oscillation between her certainty and her doubt that the past can be accurately reconstructed, and argues that the notion of a disappearing or a retained Hellenism in the diaspora must be viewed through ethnographic micro-contexts where immigrants and their descendents perform their identities.

Christou, Anastasia. Narratives of Place, Culture and Identity: Second Generation Greek Americans Return Home. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006.

Kindinger, Evangelia. “‘Only Stones and Stories Remain’: Greek American (Travel) Writing about Greece.” COPAS Vol. 12 (2011).

King, Russell, Anastasia Christou, and Janine Teerling. “‘We Took a Bath with the Chickens’: Memories of Childhood Visits to the Homeland by Second-generation Greek and Greek Cypriot ‘Returnees.’” Global Networks 11, 1 (2011): 1–23.

Leontis, Artemis. “Greek-American Identity: What Women's Handwork Tells Us.” Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity. Ed. Katerina Zacharia. London: Ashgate, 2008. 379+.

Referring to narratives collected as part of research for an exhibit of 1994, “Women's Fabric Arts in Greek America, 1894-1994” (Columbus, Ohio), the article explores how Greek women in America identify themselves in relation to the Greek-American household, the space where immigrant women tacitly accepted the mandate to recreate a miniature Greece in America, and finds opposing centripetal and centrifugal tendencies, the one crystallizing identity around a shared immigrant language, religion, customs, race, the other wishing to flee from that center.

Papailias, Penelope. “America Translated in a Migrant's Memoirs.” Genres of Recollection: Archival Poetics and Modern Greece. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 179-226.

“Papailias turns her attention to the notebooks of an obscure Peloponnesian villager and his travails in the United States in the early part of the twentieth century. As with the first three case studies, the life story of one Yorgos Mandas poses questions regarding the relationship between “History” and 'istories' (personal travails), between heady metanarratives and the kind of microhistories that seek legitimacy as pasts worth remembering. In this case the voice does not seek association with larger (national) historical narratives? Mandas says little about his personal experiences as a soldier during the Balkan Wars, for example, or to buttress the familiar 'rags to riches' line of most emigrant stories. Rather, his is a didactic study of endeavour and failure, a struggle that speaks for a vast constituency without history.”

Stewart, Charles. “Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogeneia and the Greek Diaspora.” Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Vol. 15, Issue 1 (2006): 61-88.

Abstract: “An early colonial model of creolization asked whether migrants to the New World underwent such drastic denaturing as to no longer be considered trustworthy compatriots. Homelands and their overseas colonies actively debated the moral meaning of change. In this essay, this structural model of creolization is applied to understand the relationship between the Greek state and its diaspora in the United States. That relationship has been governed by the ethnonationalist concept of Omogeneia, which means “of the same genos or ancestry” but also “homogeneity.” In the twentieth century, Omogeneia referred mainly to ethnic Greeks born and raised abroad and not possessing Greek citizenship. The idea of ethnic homogeneity became increasingly hard to sustain as Greek-Americans lost linguistic and cultural competence. The structural model of creolization guides the exploration of Greek homeland-diaspora negotiations of cultural and linguistic change in the American case. Greek-Americans are both ethnic Americans and diaspora Greeks at the same time. Although hybridity and creolization have been held up in postcolonial studies (e.g., Homi Bhabha) as productive of creative political agency, this study reveals a troubled dimension of creolization in the Greek diaspora. Omogeneia has implicitly become an othering term for those who are not linguistically and culturally competent according to homeland models and standards. A word that initially extended a welcome to ethnic Greeks left behind in Ottoman lands at independence in 1832 is now crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.”

b) Anthropology and Cultural Studies – Book Reviews

Doumanis, Nicholas. Review of “America Translated in a Migrant's Memoirs, by Penelope Papailias.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 25, No. 1 (2007): 141-143.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY-MEMOIR-BIOGRAPHY

a) Autobiographies, Memoirs, Biographies

Fey, Tina. Bussypants. Reagan Arthur Books, 2011.

“She’s a comic genius, every woman’s imaginary best friend, and the thinking man’s sex symbol. Tina Fey didn’t get this far without pulling on her bossypants.
Before there was Liz Lemon, before there was “Sarah Palin,” before there was “Weekend Update”—there was a woman with a dream. A dream that one day she would write a book about how she got here. But she had to get there first.
On her way to becoming an award-winning superstar, Tina Fey struggled through some questionable haircuts, some after-school jobs, the rise of nachos as a cultural phenomenon, a normal childhood, a happy marriage and joyful motherhood. Her story must be told! Fey’s pursuit of the perfect beauty routine may actually give you laugh lines, and her depiction of her whirlwind tour of duty as the Other Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live takes you behind the scenes of a comedy event that transfixed the nation. Now, Fey can reflect on what she’s learned: You’re no one until someone calls you bossy.” (Book description, Reagan Arthur Books website)

Gage, Eleni N. North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Kacandes, Irene. Daddy's War: Greek American Stories. A Paramemoir. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Kalfopoulou, Adrianne. Broken Greek: A Language to Belong. Austin: Plain View Press, 2006.

Orfanos, Spyros D. “So the Clerks Will Not Be Able to Fool You.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. Vol. 35, Issue 1 (2009): 105-110.

Peterson, Peter G. The Education of an American Dreamer: How a Son of Greek Immigrants Learned His Way from a Nebraska Diner to Washington, Wall Street, and Beyond. New York: Twelve Publishing, 2009.

Pyrros, James G. The Cyprus File: A Diary of the Cyprus Crisis in the Summer of 1974. Washington, D.C.: Pella Publishing, 2010.

“The Cyprus File is a story with many layers. It played out in the hot summer of 1974, at a time of a grave constitutional crisis in the United States the impending impeachment of the President over the Watergate scandal. Folded within this story was the drama bursting out on the island of Cyprus. First, the coup against Archbishop Makarios, followed shortly by the Turkish invasion, terror and destruction on the island, the fall of the Greek junta, the return of Karamanlis, the survival of Makarios, and the tragic dismemberment of Cyprus. The Nixon White House, the Kissinger State Department, the U.S. Congress, the governments of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, and many public and private figures played a role. 'Every day,' says Jim Pyrros, the author, 'we felt we were walking with history. It was an incredibly eventful time.'”

Spanos, William V. In the Neighborhood of Zero: A World War II Memoir. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2010.

The haunting recollection of living through the British and American fire-bombing of Dresden as prisoner of war in a Nazi camp is the focal point of this memoir by William Spanos, Professor of English and comparative literature at Binghamton University and an esteemed Heideggerian literary critic and founding editor of boundary 2. The author’s motto: “Did you ever return to Dresden, Professor Spanos?” “I never left there.” Critical to the narration are the first words of the first chapter: “I am a Greek American” (1). Note that Spanos comes from a working class immigrant family that became highly educated and prominent, with one brother a politician in N.H. and Massachussets. In his early years in Newport, N.H. Spanos recalls running away from his ethnic self in response to treatment as a second-class citizen. His “conflicted experience” of his unit's probable betrayal in the Battle of the Bulge and “American’s destructive power in the world” in the Dresden bombing, and the forced labor he endured picking up corpses and enduring spittings by Germans who survived the attack, functions to draw out “the silent hyphen between my Greek and American selves” (3). Spanos’s memories, unspoken for decades, the act of narrating the unbelievable story of his disappearance for 5 months and return to his family in Newport NH as if from the dead become grist to his intellectual mill. The Dresden firebombing is the ground zero of his intellectual skepticism with respect to American institutions and ideals. (Artemis Leontis)

Vidalis, Orestis E. Confronting the Greek Dictatorship in the U.S.: Years of Exile: A Personal Diary (1968-1975). Pella Publishing, 2009.

Description: “This historical diary reveals unknown events and provides evidence related to the author's fight in the United States for the restoration of Greek democracy.”

b) Autobiographies, Memoirs, Biography – Scholarship

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Against Cultural Loss: Immigration, Life History, and the Enduring Vernacular.” Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity. Ed. Katerina Zacharia. London: Ashgate, 2008. 335+.

c) Autobiographies, Memoirs, Biography – Reviews

Contis, Angelike. “Tina Fey’s Greek Gags – Uh, It’s Complicated For a Greek Thinker.” The National Herald Online. September 1 (2011).

“Is she Greek? Isn’t she? Does she feel Greek? Doesn’t she? While the general U.S. public may have focused on Tina Fey’s uncanny Sarah Palin impersonation or her television show 30 Rock, Greek Americans have wondered for a while how Emmy-winning writer/actress Fey – perhaps our highest profile pop culture figure after Jennifer Aniston at the moment- feels about her Greek heritage.”

Georgakas, Dan. Review of The Cyprus File: A Diary of the Cyprus Crisis in the Summer of 1974. The National Herald Online (2010): 10.

“The Cyprus File is an engrossing chronicle of the anti-Makarios coup organized by the Greek junta that triggered the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. It is the work of James G. Pyrros, then in the midst of a 20-year career as an aide to Democratic Congressman Lucien Nedzi of Michigan. While not in the policy level of government, Pyrros had an inside-the- beltway view of Washington's reaction to the crisis. In addition to being a Congressional aide, he also had long been part of an informal group seeking to educate American politicians and mass media about the junta that had seized power in Greece in 1967. That involvement provided Pyrros with considerable insights into the agonies of the summer of 1974. The Cyprus File is not an academic study. It is a segment of a larger diary Pyrros began to write in 1943 after reading William Shirer's bestselling Berlin Diary. Pyrros also wanted to write of events immediately as they occurred. This perspective became especially critical when… it came time for me to play a political role as participant and observer. The resulting diary is exciting reading that accurately records the shocks, fears, and hopes generated by events as they unfolded not only day-to-day, but also hour-to-hour and even minute-to-minute. Although most readers will know the ultimate out-come of events, The Cyprus File is a page-turner in the very best sense of the word.”

Georgakas, Dan. Review of Broken Greek: A Language to Belong. Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. Vol. 35, Issue 1 (2009): 121-127.

Klironomos, Martha. Review of Broken Greek: A Language to Belong. Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 27, Issue 2 (2009): 439-442.

Klironomos, Martha. Review of North of Ithaka: A Granddaughter Returns to Greece and Discovers Her Roots. Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 26, Issue 2 (2008): 491-494.

COMEDY

a) Comedy in Popular Culture

“Greek [American] Gods of Comedy.”

DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

Gatzouras, Vicky J. Family Matters in Greek American Literature. Diss. Blekinge Institute of Technology and Goteborg University, 2007.

Καρπόζηλος Κωστής. Ελληνοαμερικανοί Εργάτες, Κομμουνιστικό Κίνημα και Συνδικάτα (1900-1950): Αναζητώντας τον Εργατικό Εξαμερικανισμό στα Χρόνια της Μεγάλης Υφεσης. Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης: Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας. Ρέθυμνο, 2010.

Lillios, Emmanuel N. The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help, Religious Orientation, and Greek Orthodox Religiosity. Diss. University of Iowa, 2010.

Μανδατζής, Χρ. Υπερπόντια μετανάστευση από τη Μακεδονία: 1923-1936. Διδακτορική Διατριβή, Τμήμα Ιστορίας-Αρχαιολογίας, ΑΠΘ, 2000.

Patrona, Theodora. Novels of Return: Ethnic Spaces in Contemporary Greek-American and Italian American Literature. Diss. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, 2011.

The present thesis is a comparative approach to six Italian-American and Greek-American literary works written in the last three decades of the 20th century. Based on the common theme of the authors’ return, either metaphorical or literal to the two countries of origin and their respective cultures, this doctoral thesis explores the common motifs of mythology, ritual and storytelling where the heroes and heroines resort to in their quest for self- definition. In specific, my analysis attempts to answer two questions: how is the journey to self-definition, as well as the formation of subjectivity, connected with the recourse to ethnic space in each of the novels examined? In addition, to what extent are these two elements affected by the constantly changing framework of social, historical and economic conditions, covering two decades? Within the context of the seventies, I discuss Daphne Athas’s Cora (1978) and Helen Barolini’s Umbertina (1979), whose heroines, caught under the spell of feminist and psychoanalytic trends of their times, realize the importance of ethnic space in their journey towards self-definition. Assisted by diverse theories, I argue that though differently approached, in the end for both novels ethnic space is proven to be a site of resilience and inspiration. Moreover, in the so-called era of post-feminism, Catherine Temma Davidson’s The Priest Fainted (1998) and Susan Caperna Lloyd’s No Pictures in My Grave (1992) portray heroines who seek enlightenment and guidance by returning to the home country and its culture. In both cases, I consider the theoretical arsenal of revisionist myth making and the late-capitalist dictates reflected, and I argue that the two heroines are carriers of a similar “haughty” air of Orientalism. I conclude that since they opt for a “selective” ethnicity, they oversimplify and disorient readers as to the importance and difficulty of the ethnic female quest. Finally, utilizing two novels written by male authors, Stratis Haviaras When The Tree Sings (1979) and Tony Ardizzone’s In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu (1999), I break away from the exclusive attention to a feminist approach, and view the conceptualization of ethnic space as this is unraveled by the powerful narrative mode of storytelling. Thus, I argue that overcoming the twenty years that separate them, both novels come to underwrite the surviving powers of the oral narrative, project the ethnic story as “alternative” history, and portray the diachronic character of ethnic space as a site of rebelliousness and anti- conformism.

Tzortzinis, Christina. Expressions of Greek America. Honors Thesis under the guidelines of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts, 2011.

Expressions of Greek America is a multilayered study about key moments in foreign policy when Greek and United States interests came into opposition, challenging the place of Greek Americans in U.S. society while also inspiring lasting community-building efforts. My thesis charts Greek American reactions to events abroad through the Junta government 1967-74, the Cyprus crisis of 1974-75, and the more recent community outcry over the Macedonia naming issue. I argue that the significance of Greek identity in the diaspora is not a tenuous connection to static, distant heritage, but a continuing interaction in which changing homelands and diasporic communities influence each other in meaningful ways.

Xουρτούμη-Χαντζή, T. N. Η ελληνική μετανάστευση προς τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και η πολιτική της Ελλάδας (1890-1924). Διδακτορική Διατριβή, Τμήμα Ιστορίας-Αρχαιολογίας, ΑΠΘ, 1999.

Zaharopoulos, Helen (Eleni). Greek American Identity Under Historical, Social, and Literary Transformation. Honors Thesis completed under the guidelines of the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts, Winter 2011.

Greek American Identity Under Historical, Social, and Literary Transformation” encompasses three generations of Greeks in Michigan and analyzes Greek identity within and through these generations. I used Yiorgos Anagnostou’s book, Contours of White Ethnicity, as my theoretical base model; I questioned, analyzed, and developed his argument by suggesting that Greek American identity constantly changes throughout each generation via circumstance, social environment, or political atmosphere (just to name a few). I examined three different texts: Legends and Legacies by Pearl Kastran Ahnen, My Detroit by Dan Georgakas, and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I discovered as each text distinctions in literary richness. As we move from pure fact in Ahnen’s work, to memoir in Georgakas’ text, to fictionalization in Eugenides’ novel, the level of flexibility in identity interpretation increases. In other words, the more fiction involved, the more room there is for interpreting identity. This suggests that Greek identity is extremely fluid and is constantly questioned and developed depending on circumstance.

DOCUMENTARY

a) Documentaries

“Hometown Stories: The Greek-Americans of Charlotte.” PBS, WTVI Charlotte. 2008.

Description: “They're known for their festival, their restaurants, and their civic contributions. Their story runs much deeper, though, back to the turn of the 20th century when Charlotte was barely on the map. The Greeks survived poverty, foreign occupations, and war, yet managed to bring a wealth of culture and community to their new home: America. WTVI's Hometown Stories presents “The Greek-Americans of Charlotte,” an inspiring documentary that explores the numerous contributions the Greeks have made to Charlotte over the past 100 years.”

Maria Iliou. “The Journey: The Greek American Dream.” 2007.

Description: “While conducting research on a feature film 'A Friendship in Smyrna,' filmmaker Maria Iliou discovered a wealth of previously unseen archival photographic and film footage from over fifty public and private collections which tell the fascinating history of Greek immigrants to the United States. Along with historian Alexander Kitroeff and several scholars and guests, she brings these stories and photographs to life in order to explore and document a very special story from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

The film narrates the Greek immigration to America from 1890 to 1980. Interviews with prominent Greek Americans including Senator Paul Sarbanes, writers George Pelecanos and Elias Kulkundis, poet Olga Broumas, film critic/historian Dan Georgakas, Ellis Island Archivist George Tselos, Modern Greek Studies Professors Martha Klironomos and Artemis Leontis, researcher Gus Chatzidimitriou, Father Bob Stephanopoulos, and historian Alexander Kitroeff complement the photographic and filmic archival footage.”

The Greek Heritage Society of Southern California. The Promise of Tomorrow: The First Generation: 1940-1960. 2009

Description: “The Promise of Tomorrow, Part Two of the Greek Heritage Society's award winning series, The Greeks of Southern California Through the Century, is the universal story of the Greek American experience as seen through the eyes of those who settled in Southern California. The Documentary is currently in production and will highlight the first and second generation of Greek Americans and the changing face of our community. Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis will return to host the documentary, with additional narration by John Kapelos, as it explores the way in which the Greek American community has become an integral part of American history while maintaining a strong and unique Greek identity.” (www.greekheritagesociety.org/PromiseofTomorrow.html)

Immigrant Magazine. “The History of Greek Americans in Southern California.” Voice of Immigrants in America. June 6, 2010.

Vassilis Vassileiadis. The Sponge Diver's Dance. O horos ton sfougaradon (original title). 2003. IMDB

Description: “Kalymnos islanders' dangerous lines of work in Greece and the U.S. from sponge diving to bridge painting. Kalymnos is the last island of the Aegean Sea known for its involvement with one of the deadliest professions of the 20th century, sponge diving. The Sponge Diver's Dance explores how a heroic act of survival, leaving their island and families for half a year, risking their lives, has become a tradition. Sponge diving as a profession is in decline; but the need to keep the tradition alive has forced the younger generations of Kalymnians to pursue similar occupations--to extreme heights and extreme depths across the world, whenever they have migrated, continuing the death-defying circle of life established by their ancestors.”

b) Other Documentary Material (short and amateur documentaries, identity narratives, etc)

C.P. Cavafy: From Ithaca to Tarpon Springs. 1996.

“A 30-minute impressionistic documentary on Tarpon Springs, Florida, and on the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy.”

“Greek American Documentary.” Youtube, January 2009.

(Produced by Mega, posted on Youtube January 12, 2009. Duration 5.31')

“The Greek American Experience.” Youtube. December 2008.

“We the Hellenes.” Youtube 2008

Description: “Composed & Produced by Spiro on inspiring poetry by Greek American poet Dino Makropoulos. Sung by the group 2H 3H GENNIA. A potential anthem of the Greek youth overseas.”

c) Documentaries – Reviews

Immigrant Magazine. “The History of Greek Americans in Southern California.” Voice of Immigrants in America. June 6, 2010.

d) Documentaries [in production]

"Greek American Radicals – The Untold Story" by Kostis Karpozilos (www.greekamericanradicals.com)

"Xenitia – A Stranger in a Foreign Land" by Athena Scotes (http://www.xenitiastrangerinaforeignland.com/)

[Note: both websites allow for donors to contribute funds toward the completion of the documentaries]

DRAMA

a) Plays

Masciotti, Christina. Vision Disturbance. New York City, 2010.

Reviews:

Contis, Angelike. “Masciotti's Disturbed Vision Play” The National Herald Online, August 14-20, 2010.

EDUCATION

Kourvetaris, Andrew. “Reasons Why Parents Send Their Children to, or Withdraw Them from, Greek School: Lessons from Educators and Parents in the United States.” Globalization and Hellenic Diaspora: Proceedings of the International Conference in Rethymno, Greece. University of Crete and the European Union: Rethymno, June 29-July 1, 2007.

FOLKLORE

Scotes, Vasiliki and Thomas J. A Weft of Memory: A Greek Mother's Recollection of Songs and Poems. New Rochelle: Aristide D. Caratzas, 2008.

“A bilingual edition of songs and poems remembered by Vasiliki Scotes, an immigrant from Greece living in Pennsylvania since 1931, who, nearing 100 years old in 2004, sat down with her son, retired U.S. diplomat Thomas J. Scotes, in 2004 and for the next three years dictated as many songs as she could remember from her childhood in Theodoriana, Epirus. He intended to record and translate them for the benefit of her descendents, so that they would know something of her origins. Scotes accepted the challenge and began pulling at long-submerged threads of childhood memory, word by word, line by line. For the next three years she extracted verses she hadn't heard recited or sung for more than 70 years. Ballads from the era of Greece's Ottoman occupation, bandit songs from the Greek War of Independence, patriotic songs, and songs of holidays, love, marriage, absence and lament all came back to her. Thomas Skotes' translations, photographs, annotations, and introduction together offer multi-layered context for appreciating the poems, which includes the 20th century layers of emigration.”

FAMILY AND INTERMARRIAGE

Joanides, Charles, Mike Mayhew, and Philip Mamalakis. “Investigating Inter-Christian and Intercultural Couples Associated with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America: A Qualitative Research.” The American Journal of Family Therapy. Vol. 30, Issue 4 (July 2002). 373-383.

Karpathakis, Anna and Dan Georgakas. “Demythologizing Greek American Families.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 36. 1-2 (2010): 45-62.

This analysis of the Greek family data in the 2000 census was conducted by Karpathakis with the assistance of Georgakas. The major conclusion of the article is that the census data clearly demonstrates that Greek families, do not significantly differ from their American counterparts, but they have decidedly different patterns in different regions of the United Sates.

FILM

a) Films

Petrie, Donald. My Life in Ruins. 2009

Sutton, Sean James. The Greek-American. 2009.

Maltepes, Alysia. The Greek American. 2007.

b) Film Resources

Georgakas, Dan with Vassilis Lambropoulos. The Greek American Image in American Cinema.

Description: “How American films depict Greek Americans tells us more about American culture than about Greek Americans. Cinema generally reflects contemporary cultural beliefs. By presenting those values in vivid forms, cinema reinforces them. The general rule is that screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, and actors do not have any special knowledge of Greek America and reproduce the dominant negative and positive cultural stereotypes. Far less common is an attempt to consciously reshape those perceptions.

The following filmography, which offers an account of the image of Greek Americans in American cinema, reveals how mainstream America has perceived Greek Americans at any given moment and how American cinema has reacted to that perception. For our purposes, Greek America is composed of immigrants and any offspring who self-define themselves as Greek.”

c) Film Scholarship

Dombrowski, Lisa ed. Kazan Revisited. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan U Press, 2011.

“Fifteen essayists take on various dimensions of the film work of Kazan. Complete filmography and select bibliography featuring most recent books and basic sources on his film work.”

Georgakas, Dan. “Kazan, Kazan,” Cineaste Vol. 31-4 (Fall, 2011): 4-9.

Designed as a starting point for evaluating Kazan’s entire artistic career as a whole rather than in distinct segments as is the current practice. Strong emphasis also given on the leftist cultural influences in the work of Kazan and the impact on his work and politics that stem from his Anatolian identity.

Kalogeras, Yiorgos. "Retrieval and Invention: The Adaptation of Texts and the Narrativization of Photographs in Films on Immigration.
Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 29.2 (2011): 153-170.

Kalogeras, Yiorgos. “Are Armenians White? Reading Elia Kazan's America, America.” Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings. Ed. Jopi Nyman. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholarly Publications, 2009. 64-76.

Roth, Luanna. “Beyond Communitas: Cinematic Food Events and the Negotiation of Power, Belonging, and Exclusion.” Western Folklore. Vol. 64 (¾): 163-187.

Perren, Alisa. “A Big Fat India Success Story? Press Discourses Surrounding the Making and Marketing of a Hollywood Movie.” Journal of Film and Video. Vol. 56, No. 2 (2004), 18-31.

Tzanelli, Rodanthi. “Europe Within and Without: Narratives of American Cultural Belonging in and through My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” Comparative American Studies. Vol. 2, No. 1 (2004). 39-59.

d) Film Reviews

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Greek America 101: My Big Greek Wedding’s Lessons.” The National Herald Online, June 25 (2011).

“…I also take an alternative route in teaching the film. Instead of asking what is true and what is false in the script, I encourage students to probe its significance: What is the purpose of portraying certain groups in specific ways? Why for example are immigrants caricatured? Why is it that the Millers are ridiculed in their WASPy ways? What does the contrast between the unruly Portokaloses and the uptight Millers accomplish? What is it that the film promotes? Clearly, the film denigrates immigrants and WASPs alike.”

Georgakas, Dan. Review of Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider. Ed. Robert Cornfield. Cineaste (2009): 77-78.

e) Reflections on Film Making

Kazan, Elia. Kazan on Directing. New York: Vintage Books: 2009.

FINE ARTS

Lewis, David, Peter Contis, and Helen Contis. Byzantine Butterflies: The Folk Paintings of Peter Contis and Helen Contis, Greek Immigrants to America. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999.

FOOD

Freedman, M.R. and Grivetti, L.E. “Diet Patterns of First, Second, and Third Generation Greek-American Women.” Ecol. Food Nutr. Vol. 14. 185-204.

GENDER STUDIES

Arapoglou, Eleftheria. A Bridge Over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of “Women’s Orients.” Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011.

“This book is a critical study of Demetra Vaka Brown, one of the most significant Greek American writers of the turn of the last century, framed within the fields of “Orientalism” and cultural studies. Offering an overview of her life and career with analytical readings of her major works, the book’s focus is on the role of Vaka Brown as cultural agent: at once a white female and an immigrant of Greek descent and a former citizen of Ottoman Turkey who worked as a journalist and author in the United States, writing in English and contributing her work to mainstream publications. The book presents the identity and spatial politics of Vaka Brown, recovering the discursive techniques employed in her identification processes and assessing the significance of her cultural agency in the context of the dominant themes and preoccupations of the Orientalist tradition. Vaka Brown is further examined as a case study which provides historically informed and cultural perspectives on the complexities and ambiguities of women’s imperial positionings at the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries in the East and West. By exploring the author’s predicament in constructing an authorial and narrative identity in the interstices between the East and the West, modernity and tradition, ethnicity and nationalism, the book articulates a nuanced historical and cultural reading of Vaka Brown’s writing and ultimately probes the alternative responses Vaka Brown’s texts offer to the “scaffoldings” of nationalism.”

Tastsoglou, Evangelia, ed. Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives: Labor, Community, and Identity in Greek Migrations. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009.

GLOBALIZATION, TRANSNATIONALISM, DIASPORA

Koukoutsaki-Monnier, A. Websites of the Greek-American Diaspora. 2010.

Koundoura, Maria. The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 2007.

Roudometof, Victor. “From Greek-Orthodox Diaspora to Transnational Hellenism: Greek Nationalism and the Identities of the Diaspora.” The Call of the Homeland: Diaspora Nationalisms, Past and Present. Allon Gal, Athena S. Leoussi, and Anthony D. Smith, eds. London: Brill/UCL, 2010. 139-66.

Rozen, M. (ed.). Homelands and Diasporas. Greeks, Jews and their Migrations, New York, Tauris, 2008.

Tsaliki, L. “Globalisation and Hybridity. The Construction of Greekness on the Internet.” In The Media of Diaspora, K. H. Karim (ed.). London, New York, Routledge, 2003: 162-176.

GREEK AMERICA – MISCELLANEOUS

Constantinou, Stavros T. “Ethnic Residentials Shifts, the Greek Population of Akron, Ohio (1930-2005).” GeoJournal. Vol. 68 (2007). 253-265.

Davidhizar R., V. King, G. Bechtel, and J.N. Giger. “Nursing Clients of Greek Ethnicity at Home.” Home Healthcare Nurse. Vol. 16. Issue 9 (1998): 618-623.

The home healthcare nurse who cares for persons with Greek ancestry should be aware of their unique cultural heritage. The nurse should also be aware that Greek people throughout the world are proud and independent, valuing their religious faith and practices, good health, education, and success. Care should be designed to include appreciation of traditions and customs that these clients may have. The nurse should make a special effort to develop trust with the Greek client and family members in order to effectively implement culturally competent healthcare.

Zaromatidis, K.A, A. Papadaki, and A. Gilde. “A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Attitudes toward Persons with Disabilities: Greeks and Greek-Americans.” Psychol. Rep. Volume 84. No. 3, Part 2 (1999): 1189-1196.

GREEK AMERICAN STUDIES

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Where Does 'Diaspora' Belong? The View from Greek American Studies.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 28. No. 1 (2010): 73-119.

Keywords: Greek American Studies, Greek American historiography, Modern Greek Studies, Diaspora

Abstract: “Diaspora, variously defined, denotes difference within a host nation and connection with a real or imaginary homeland elsewhere. Diaspora claims, that is, a location that entangles the national, otherness within the national (often construed as ethnic), and places across national borders, all this in vastly complex ways. The study of diaspora therefore requires an analogous scholarly location that brings into conversation national, ethnic, and area studies. The analysis of the U.S. “Greek diaspora,” for instance, calls for cross-fertilization between American ethnic, Greek American, and modern Greek studies. This kind of systematic exchange did not materialize in the context of post 1960s U.S. academy, despite vocal calls for such dialogue. Here, Anagnostou demonstrates that “diaspora” was not a primary organizing reference for research in either U.S. Greek American or U.S. modern Greek studies, a lapse all too conspicuous if one takes into account the political, economic, and cultural importance of the Greek diaspora. Instead, dominant threads within Greek American and modern Greek studies developed along the trajectory of a nation-centric paradigm respectively, the former privileging the study of ethnicity in a national (American) context, the latter attaching analytical priority to Greece. As a result of this bifurcation “diaspora” was relegated to the margins, remained under-theorized, and was often neglected as a research prospect. From the perspective of Greek American studies and focusing on selective Greek American histories, texts, and institutional contexts, it is possible to illuminate the ideological underpinnings for turning diaspora into a contested terrain for both Greek American and modern Greek studies. Thus, the clashing positions can be charted against the ongoing transnationalization of Greek worlds as well as of the transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences, a parallel development that invites a fundamental remapping of Greek America and consequently obliges scholars of both Greek American and modern Greek studies to rethink their spatial and cultural frames of analysis. The operation of transnational geographies associated with Greek worlds calls attention to the artificiality of the boundary between Greek American and modern Greek studies and the necessity for joining their forces for the purpose of new critical mappings, a project now under way within U.S. modern Greek studies programs.”

Frangos, Steve. "Let Her Works Tell Her Praises: Eva Topping." The National Herald OnLine. Jan 5, 2012.

Leontis, Artemis. “Modern Greek Studies at the University Level: Challenges and Opportunities.” American Hellenic Institute Foundation Policy Journal. Vol. 3, Winter 2011-2012. (http://ahiworld.org/AHIFpolicyjournal/current-issue/)

HISTORY

a) Community and Regional Histories

Antonakos, John. The Greek American Community of Essex County. New Jersey: Author House, 2010.

Description: “This book is about Greek Americans who have lived or live in Essex County, New Jersey. Greeks first started to immigrate to the United States in large numbers after 1900. This book gives the stories of individual Greek American families. It gives a cross section of the Greek immigrants who come to America between 1900 and 1930. And it gives a cross section of the children of these immigrants. A Greek American community is synonymous with a parish of the Orthodox Church. In Essex County the community consisted of four churches. These churches are St. Nicholas, St. Demetrios, St. Fanourios, and Sts. Constantine and Helen. The priests who served these churches and their period of service are listed in the book. The churches religious services and Sunday and Greek schools greatly participate in shaping the moral character of the people. This book contains the biographies of individual families of the community. The biographies are arranged alphabetically, except that biographies about children or grandchildren of a particular family immediately follow the root family biography, so as to maintain the continuity of that family. The chief characteristics of the first immigrants were their high moral character and their industriousness. They passed these good characteristics onto their children. These immigrants were also highly supportive of education, and saw to it that their children received a good education. Because of all of these factors, today the immigrants children and grandchildren are leaders in commerce, industry, education, and government. They have accomplished what their parents desired for them. Truly they have achieved the American dream.”

Βασδέκης, Παντελής. Οι Έλληνες Μετανάστες στο Σικάγο και η Ίδρυση της Κοινότητας της Αγίας Τριάδας, 1890-1927. Private Publisher, 2007.

Charitis, Christine V. Staten Island's Greek Community (NY). Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2006.

“In the early part of the 20th century, Staten Island experienced an influx of Greek immigrants drawn to America by the promise of abundant opportunities. They settled in the farms of New Springville and Bulls Head and in the busy life of Port Richmond. Staten Island's Greek Community highlights traditional aspects of Greek culture and exults in the Americanization, accomplishments, and contributions of this group. The historic images in this book capture familiar scenes such as Greek farms and roadside stands overflowing with succulent vegetables, truck farmers venturing into Manhattan to bring their produce to the Washington Market, and the Candy Kitchen in Port Richmond.”

Davros, Michael George. Greeks in Chicago, IL. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2009.

Holy Trinity Greek Historical Committee. Greeks in Phoenix. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

The Greek community in Phoenix began in 1907, when the Sanichas brothers, Charles and Chris, arrived in the city to establish the Sanichas Confectionery Store. By 1912, the year of Arizona's statehood, the community had grown to nine families, including the Georgouses family of five brothers. In 1930, ground was broken for the construction of the Hellenic Community House, where religious services were held until 1947, when the Hellenic Orthodox Church was built. Today the legacy of the area's Greek pioneers lives on through the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which has established a research archive and museum to preserve and celebrate the Greek history of Phoenix. In this volume, members of the Holy Trinity Greek Historical Committee have collected more than 200 vintage photographs and other visual memorabilia to illustrate the unique Greek history of Phoenix. From their humble beginning in the early 1900s, the Greek community has grown into four Greek Orthodox Church communities. This retrospective pays tribute to the Greek families who pioneered early Phoenix and provided strong cultural roots for their future generations.

Morris, George J. Charleston's Greek Heritage. Charleston: History Press, 2008.

Description: “Since the arrival of Maria Gracia Dura Bin Turnbull, the first female Greek settler in North America, Charleston has long embraced a vibrant Greek community, which has in turn continued to enrich the area for centuries. As an eastern seaboard city, Charleston was a magnet for great numbers of Greek immigrants, most from the island of Cephalonia. They journeyed to the city during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, bringing with them a rich cultural heritage, shared values and a devotion to hard work and industry. Those early settlers operated small businesses, predominately grocery stores and restaurants, and emphasized education, ensuring that their descendants would help to weave the professional and civil fabric of the city. Their stories encapsulate the American immigrant experience, offering a portrait of where Charleston has been and where it can go. Longtime Charleston resident George J. Morris, an active member of the local Greek community, has collected primary documents and photographs that illustrate the unique development of Greek culture in the city.”

Perera, Srianthi. Book Documents History of Phoenix's Greek Community. Arcadia Publishing, 2008.

Samonides, William H., et al. Greeks of Stark County. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing: 2009.

Publisher Comments: “By the early 20th century, Stark County was one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation. The home of martyred president William McKinley had become a major industrial center, with alloy steel as the engine of growth for the booming local economy. To fill the ever-increasing demand for labor, waves of immigrants from Greece and Asia Minor settled in Canton and Massillon. Some sought economic opportunity; others were fleeing the Pontian Black Sea coast, where ethnic cleansing of Greeks accompanied the creation of the Turkish state. For the immigrant earning less than $3 a day, building a church meant making a commitment to a new life. In Canton, St. Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church was founded in 1913 and Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in 1917. In Massillon, St. George Greek Orthodox Church was established in 1931. Churches and mutual aid organizations provided cohesiveness to the dynamic, often fractious, Greek community, which survived world wars, economic depression, and social discrimination and continues to flourish today.”

Stamos, Helen Coidakis, et al. The Greeks of Newport, New Hampshire. Newport, NH: Hedgehog Publishing, 2011.

The book compiles stories of Greek-born individuals, their businesses, families, descendants, networks (by place of origin, businesses, gender, belief) and practices, and their relationship to the "American Dream." Helen Coidakis Stamos has edited the words of others and composed many of her own accounts with respectful attention to the legacies of the people she has known who are no longer present, their difficult lives, and the sense of community they managed to recreate. The book is carefully researched, with an avid reader's attention to the multiple layers of Greek lives in American.

Thomopoulos, Elaine. The Greeks of Berrien County, Michigan. Michigan: Berrien County Historical Association, 2003.

Trakas, Deno. Because Memory Isn't Eternal: A Story of Greeks in Upstate South Carolina. Hub City: Hub City Writers Project, 2010.

Description: “In 1895, Nicholas Trakas left his village in southern Greece, boarded a steamship for America, and made his way to another southern village, Spartanburg, where he became the South Carolina city's first Greek resident. He opened The Elite--one of the finest candy kitchens in the South--built a house on a lot he purchased for $44 and a pet parrot that could cuss in Greek, and began a wave of immigration from his home country into the burgeoning Upstate area.

A century later, his grandson, Deno Trakas, a writer and professor at Wofford College, explores a peculiarly Southern version of the Greek-American story in “Because Memory Isn't Eternal.” By introducing readers to four generations of Trakas family members, their remarkable friends, and their hardworking business partners, he tells a greater story and reflects on how these complex, larger-than-life characters have preserved the best of Greek culture down South. This intimate and often humorous memoir includes stories of Greek-American marriages, food, language, restaurants, religion, and misadventures, including the day two Trakas boys accidentally burned down the family's church.

A constantly repeated refrain at Greek funerals is 'Aionia i mnimi''- 'May his (or her) memory be eternal.'' More often, Trakas reveals, memory is 'painfully, annoyingly short.' His loving illustrated tribute to Greek-Americans assures that these stories and this history will not be forgotten.”

About the Author: Deno Trakas has published fiction and poetry in more than two dozen journals, including the Denver Quarterly, Oxford American, and the Louisville Review. He is a professor of English at Wofford College, where he also serves as director of the writing center and coordinator of the creative writing program. Trakas lives in Spartanburg, SC.

b) History in Popular Media

Frangos, Steve. “Comedienne Nellie Nichols Was Once Cathachakes.” The National Herald Online, August 16, 2010.

“Helene Cathachakes was the first successful Greek American comedienne of vaudeville, musical theatre, and Hollywood film. Cathachakes s nearly 40- year career extended from her first great acclaim in vaudeville as a singer and dancer, to later work as a screen actress, culminating in her much sought after instruction as a voice coach. Cathachakes never denied her ethnicity nor overlooked an opportunity to spend time with local Greeks in the cities, towns and hamlets in which she toured. That she became lost to our collective consciousness is yet another indicator of how little Greek Americans recall of their enduring impact on American society and culture at large. In teasing apart the published accounts of Cathachakes life and career we frequently find show biz hokum. Yet it is fascinating in the extreme how Cathachakes' musical and linguistic skills were such that her real ethnicity became an ongoing topic of her popularity and publicity.”

Frangos, Steve. “Georgia Drake, Greek Goddess of Song.” The National Herald Online, July 16, 2010.

“Georgia Drake (Tsarpalas) is the first woman of Greek descent to have hosted her own television program: The Georgia Drake Show. A lost moment in the Golden Age of American Television, to some perhaps, but for Greek American Studies her complex career is of special interest. For not only did she succeed in the early days of television, but she was to have a long international career which eventually led her headlining at the Hilton in Athens for well over a decade. She was born March 21, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois. As with most Greeks in North America, she attributes her eventual successes to the values she was first taught and experienced at home. Georgia s father, Demetrios Tsarpalas, hailed from the village of Kynegou near Pylos in the Messinia district of the Peloponnese. Demetrios was the second of 10 children. At the age of 19 he immigrated, first to Boston, then to Chicago. In time he brought four brothers.”

Frangos, Steve. “Greek Paradise in Virginia.” The National Herald Online, June 28, 2010.

“It is almost incredible that John Paradise is a forgotten figure in Greek-American history. During the heady days of the European Enlightenment, Paradise was a highly respected intellectual, socially sought after by the most prominent figures of this glittering era. Aside from his social and intellectual connections, Paradise, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, was notable as a steadfast and persuasive advocate of the American Cause. When few people in London would even speak with an American, he and his wife Lucy opened their home to any and all visiting Americans. Such was Paradise's belief in the democratic underpinnings of the American rebellion that he became a naturalized American citizen. All at a time when he and his family lived in London and could easily have been arrested as seditious enemies of the British crown. It was John Paradise's genius for friendship that makes him and his wife Lucy historically significant for modern Greek Studies. This couple formed a social and intellectual nexus for the Enlightenment few others could claim.”

Frangos, Steve. “John Paradise Conquers Virginia.” The National Herald Online, June 20, 2010.

“In a time when it is claimed that studies of the Greek Diaspora are on the rise worldwide it is well worth re-considering the life of John Paradise. This one man s life brings together many of the enduring questions and concerns that continue to plague the very definition of the historical and cultural experiences of Hellenes outside the nation state of Greece. The record of Paradise s life is readily available to anyone to survey in historical accounts, diaries, encyclopedia entries, literally hundreds of archived letters and other forms of documentation. This readily accessible published material makes it especially curious that more about Paradise has not entered Greek-American Studies.”

Frangos, Steve. “The Greeks of the Great Northwest.” The National Herald Online, April 17, 2010.

“The history of the Greeks in the Great Northwest is well recorded. Still, it must be said that the vast majority of Greek Americans have not yet discovered the readily available historical accounts documenting the Greek presence in Oregon and Washington, and this fact alone tells us how much Greek America, once so close, has lost something of its social cohesion. Detailed historic and pictorial accounts document specific communities such as Bellingham, Portland, and Seattle, while a regional study of the Yakima Valley in Washington attests to the long-time presence of Greeks across that fertile expanse.”

Frangos, Steve. “The Story of Vasilios Kanellos: Modern Dancer to the Ancient Gods.” The National Herald Online, February 26, 2010.

“Any consideration of Vasilios Kanellos life and career immediately entangles the reader into the broader issues of Euroamerican notions of the Ancient Greeks. Undeniably, a native-born Greek, Kanellos learned a Euroamerican dance-style that quite self-consciously attempted to recreate dance as Greeks of the Classical era performed them. For his entire career, Vasilios Kanellos traveled across Europe, North America and elsewhere performing, lecturing and promoting this revived dance genre.”

c) History and Historiography Scholarship

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Research Frontiers, Academic Margins: Helen Papanikolas and the Authority to Represent the Immigrant Past.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. Vol. 34 (2008): 9-29.

Karpozilos Kostis. “Labor Unions, Radicalism and the Communist Left in the Greek-American Communities (1920-1950).”
The International Newsletter of Communist Studies XV (2009): 23-25

Karpozilos Kostis. “The American Socialist Movement and the Greek Immigrant Newspaper I Phone tou Ergatou (Voice of the Worker).”
In Proceedings of the International Congress on the History of the Greek Diaspora, Rethymno, 2004: 156-163 [in Greek]

Kitroeff, Alexander. “The Greeks of Egypt in the United States.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. Vol. 35, No. 2 (2009).

Konstadakopoulos, Dimitrios and Soterios C. Zoulas. 100 Years in America: Tsamantas (Greece) Worcester, MA (USA) 1908-2008. Historical Determinants and Images of the Identity and Culture of Diasporas from Southwestern Europe. Bristol: University of the West of England, 2010.

Description: “Why immigrants from the same village migrate to the same city or town in America? What motivated them? What was the cause for acceptance of Greek immigrants during the 1940s and their assimilation into the wider America society? What happens to the places and people left behind? What are their hidden histories? Did immigrant banks help foster migration? How important were the Irish immigrants in the development of 19th and early 20th century America?

All these question and more are answered in [this book] with seven original essays on various aspects of immigration in general, Greek-America immigration in particular including two essays on the immigration of Greek migrants from the village of Tsamantas in northwest Greece to Worcester, MA. Other essays discuss the importance of Irish immigrants in the development of 19th century Northeast America cities, a statistical profile of Greek-Americans and internal America immigration and its impact on a Maine town.”

Laliotou, Ioanna. Transnational Subjects: Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Martelle, Scott. Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

Papadopoulos, Yannis G.S. “The Role of Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Class in Shaping Greek American Identity, 1890-1927: A Historical Analysis.” Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Assaad E. Azzi, Xenia Chryssochoou, Bert Klandermans, Bernd Simon, eds. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Παπαδόπουλος, Γιάννης, Γ.Σ. “Οι μετανάστες από τη Μακεδονία στη Βόρεια Αμερική από «διατοπικά» σε «διεθνικά» υποκείμενα»” [“Immigrants from Macedonia in the USA: From translocal to transnational subjects.”] Archeiotaxio. No. 11 (2009): 37-54

Χασιώτης, I.K., Ό. Κατσιαρδή-Hering, Ε. Α. Αμπατζή (επιμ.). Οι Έλληνες στη Διασπορά 15ος-21ος αι., Αθήνα, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, 2006.

d) History – Reviews Frangos, Steve. Review of Greeks in Chicago, IL (Michael George Davros). Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2009 ( Review).

Identity & Immigration

Karas, Nicholas V. Greek Immigrants at Work: A Lowell Odyssey. Lowell, MA: Meteora Press, 1986.

Karas, Nicholas V. Greek Immigrant Chronicles: The Alpha and Omega. Lowell, MA: Meteora Press, 1989.

Kourelis, Kostis, ed. “The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture.” The New Griffon. Vol. 10. Athens: Gennadios Library at the American School of Classical Studies, 2008.

Orfanos, Spyros D., ed. Reading Greek America: Studies in the Experience of Greeks in the United States. NY: Pella Publishing Co, 2002.

Sampas, Charles G. The First Greek Immigrants in Lowell Massachusetts. Lowell, MA: Private Printing, nd.

Vermeulen, H. T. Venema, “Peasantry and Trading Diaspora. Differential Social Mobility of Italians and Greeks in the United States”,
in H. Vermeulen, J. Perlmann (eds.), Immigrants, Schooling and Social Mobility. Does Culture Make a Difference?, Houndmills/Basingstoke, Macmillan, 2000: 124-149.

LANGUAGE

Pappas, Panayiotis. “Greeks in Columbus, Ohio.” Language Diversity in Michigan and Ohio: Towards Two State Linguistic Profiles. Brian D. Joseph, Carol G. Preston, Dennis R. Preston, eds. Arbor: Caravan Books, 2005. 243-250.

LITERATURE AND POETRY

a) Fiction

Jarvis, Charles E. The Tyrants. Lowell: Ithaca Press, 1977.

Jarvis, Charles E. Zeus has Two Urns. Lowell: Ithaca Press, 1976.

Καρατζαφέρη, Ιωάννα. Βιο-ιστορίες. Διηγήματα. Αθήνα: Καστανιώτης, 2007.

Lardas, Nicholas G. Ikaria Remembered. Illustrations by Zacharias A. Lardis. Lardis Fine Arts.

In 1932 Nicholas Lardas, then age 13, traveled with his mother and siblings from Long Island to his parents' island of Ikaria, while his father stayed in New York to support them. More than 70 years later, Lardas recollected his youthful impressions in this collection of short stories.

Petrakis, Harry Mark. Cavafy's Stone and Other Village Tales. Chicago: Wicker Park Press, 2010.

Τρέντελ, Αρίστη. Άρτεμις: Διηγήματα. Μετ. Χριστίνα Λιναρδάκη, Τάσος Αναστασίου. Αθήνα: Ηριδανός, 2008.

b) Fiction – Reviews

Stefanidou, Anastasia. Review of The Open Hearth: The First Generation: A Novel Immigration (Thomas Doulis). Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora. Vol. 26.1-2 (2010).

Thomopoulos, Elaine. Review of Ikaria Remembered (Nicholas G. Lardas). New York: National Herald Books, 2006. 8+.

c) Poetry

Αλεξίου, Νίκος. Κυκλικά Τραύματα. Σ.Ι. Ζαχαρόπουλος, 2011.

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “Pale Imitation” and “–Aμέerικa.” Transnational Literature, Vol. 4(1), November 2011. (http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/current.html)

Economou, George. Ananios of Kleitor, Poems & Fragments and their Reception from Antiquity to the Present. London: Shearsman Press, 2009.

“With this latest volume of poetry, poet and scholar of Medieval English George Economou exemplifies both how an American of Greek descent may reclaim Greece and simultaneously how impossibly elusive is the goal of recovery. Ananios of Kleitor is an unprecedented, unique work. Part poem, part scholarship, part manuscript history, part correspondence, it translates and reconstructs fragments and the scholarly history of an author and poetic oeuvre that never existed. The book opens with a photo-image of a brown papyrus from the University of Michigan Papyrology Collection, then a brief introduction praising the recovery work of scholars and summarizing the legacy of Ananios's lost texts. English translations of 41 fragments of Greek erotic verse follow. Ancient commentaries on Ananios poetry give contexts for its readings, and modern correspondence on the poems' recovery tells a gripping story of classicism intermixed with love, adultery, betrayal, and the atrocities of World War II. The book closes with an index nomenum with biographies of all the players. All of this comes together as a commanding piece of fiction centered in the vicinity of Kalavryta, the patrida of both Ananios and Economou, opening scene of the Greek revolution of 1821, and scene of the execution of 78 German soldiers followed by the machine gunning of 1436 Greek males on December 13, 1943. It turns out that the book's contents, but not its context, are a stunning deception. The book also invites us to think about the perspective on Greece developed by the child of Greek emigrants. The book represents Economou's most profound reckoning with the process of reclaiming Greece from the outside. Economou's encounter with Ananios, like his encounter with Greece, begins with a translation of fragments of a whole that does not exist, and which, even in its fragmentary form, is invented based on evidence passionately preserved by others. The fragments are so shattered, old, and foreign that they make little sense in and of themselves. Yet powerful emotions get attached to them. Like the Greece recounted abroad by one's emigrating parents, the original poems become an ever-receding target. While there is no possibility of their recovery, the very act of translating fragments that do not exist and recovering their context becomes a way of connecting not just with an emigrant's origin in an imagined homeland but with Hellenism and the very conditions of its survival.”

Kavounas, Alic. Ornament of Asia. London: Shearsman Press, 2009.

Kostos, Dean, ed. Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry. New Jersey: Somerset Hall Press, 2008.

Tolides, Tryfon. An Almost Pure Empty Walking. Penguin, 2006.

“Tolides' poems move through the many wrinkles in the lives of immigrants, who encounter the new world through the old and live both here and there. Working long hours in restaurants, a package store and pizza delivery, the immigrant son encounters worlds of hard loneliness. Harder still are images of raw power that cut through his conscience but make no sense to him. America also gives the poet his appreciation for the village, the setting of a more intimate home. Greece is powerfully present in this collection. Regular summer visits keep the place, the people, the trees, soil, air, houses, sparrows, swallows, plants, smoke a continuous memory and presence. The village becomes a jewel that lights up whenever the immigrant son is far away. Everything feels grounded. Things all seem to rest in their proper place. An Almost Pure Empty Walking captures the transatlantic between-ness of the poet's life: between America and Greece, city and village, complexity and simplicity.”

Tolides, Tryfon, Exclusive Interview with Artemis Leontis (2006)

Tolides, Tryphon. Poems [“Village Time,” “After Vespers (I.M. Esfigmenou),” “First Rain in the Village,” “String Beans,” “After,” “The Last Apple,” “Next to Silence (Kenosis),” “Unexpected Dailiness”]. The Adirondack Review: An Arts & Literature Quarterly, Vol. XII.2 (Fall 2011).

Tolides, Tryfon. Poems [“Aperture,” “Place,” “Stuff I’m Looking For"]. New Purlieu Review: Life in the Second Decade of the Century, Issue 1. 2011.

Kalfopoulou, Adrianne. Passion Maps. Pasadena: Red Hen Press, 2009.

d) Poetry – Reviews

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. "Reading the Hyphen in Poetry." Review of Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek American Poetry (Dean Kostos ed).
Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 29.2 (2011): 279-290.

Klironomos, Martha. Review of An Almost Pure Empty Walking (Tryfon Tolides). Harvard Review. Vol. 33 (2007): 214-215.

Leontis, Artemis. Review of Ananios of Kleitor, Poems & Fragments and their Reception from Antiquity to the Present (George Economou). Athens Review of Books 1:9, 2010.

Leontis, Artemis. “Tryfon Tolides' Joyous Book of Sadness.” Review of An Almost Pure Empty Walking. New York: National Herald Books, 2008.

e) Literature and Poetry Scholarship

Hsu, Stephanie. "Ethnicity and the Biopolitics of Intersex in Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex." MELUS. Vol. 36, issue 3 (September 10, 2011): 87-110.

Καραμπίνη-Ιατρού, Μιχαήλα. "Ποίηση και Έλληνες Μετανάστες στις Η.Π.Α." Ένεκεν. Τεύχος 16 (2010): 138-144

Klironomos, Martha. “The Topos of Home in New Greek-American Writing.” Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700: Society, Politics, and Culture. Dimitris Tziovas, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009. 241-255.

Kozyrakis, Yuliya. “Remembering the Future: Ethnic Memory in Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.” 2010.

Trendel, Aristi. “The Reinvention of Identity in Jeffrey Eugenides’s Middlesex.” European Journal of American Studies Oslo Conference Special Issue 2 (2011): document 6.

Review of The Open Hearth: The First Generation: A Novel Immigration (Thomas Doulis) reviewed by Anastasia Stefanidou Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 26.1-2 (2010).

MUSIC AND SONG

Annabouboula, “Immortal Water.” Record Label: Byzan-Tone, 2010.

"Annabouboula" is a Greek expression meaning a mixed-up noise, but for years, Annabouboula the group has been exploring a seductive alternate musical world where Greek, Middle Eastern and Balkan traditions are re-tooled and re-imagined with an anything-goes attitude befitting their Athens-meets-downtown New York origins. Starting out in the late 1980's with the ground-breaking singles "Hamam" and "Don't Worry Ma", Annabouboula went on to thrill festival and TV audiences world-wide with their challenging approach to Greek roots-rock, setting precedents for the next two decades of ethnic fusion. Featuring the spellbinding Anna Paidoussi singing provocatively over the rhythms and soundscapes of guitarist George Barba Yiorgi and friends, their new release Immortal Water picks up where their classic critically-acclaimed World Beat albums like In The Baths of Constantinople left off, injecting surf-rock, big-beat electronica, and gypsy-pop flash into their unique blend of Greek folk, rebetika, and contemporary flavors. From the hard-rocking anthem of the Athens underworld Hello Sailor, to the haunting dub-reggae inflected What Do You Care, to the odd-meter electronic dance workout of The Drum Lesson, to the title song, a reworking of a 1920s folk tune for the 21st century, Annabouboula will take you on a trip to the outer limits of global pop.

Lingas, Alexander. "The Domestication of Greek Orthodox Liturgical Music in America 1930-1960." Conference Talk in Pilgrims and Pioneers: The Growth of Orthodox Christianity in 20th Century America. Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, October 1, 2011.

Abstract: This paper explores the early reception of Greek Orthodox liturgical music in the United States of America during its crucial formative period of 1930–1960. It begins by identifying a number of ‘Old World’ sources for Greek American repertories, the most important of which are the received traditions of post-medieval Byzantine chanting as practised throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, polyphony as cultivated at the Royal Chapel of the Hellenic Kingdom, and the reformed idiom of Byzantine chanting proffered by the Athenian cantor John Sakellarides. It then addresses the transformation of these sources in publications of liturgical music issued on the East Coast of the USA from 1931 to 1953 by Nicholas Roubanis, Christos Vrionides, George Anastasiou and Anna Geortheou Gallos. It concludes by briefly discussing the early work in Los Angeles of Frank Desby, whose publications combined further movement toward what was at that time the American musical mainstream with an academic agenda adopted from European composers and musicologists.

PERFORMANCE

Kariotis, Angela. “Say Logos Say Word.” 2006. Review of a performance. Lardas, Nicho

Description: “The show is about being a first-generation hyphenated American. [It] also tackles bridging the gap between Ancient and Modern Greece.”
See angelakaRIOTis.com

POLITICS AND ETHNICITY

Georgakas, Dan. "Election Year Possibilities for Greek American Activism." American Hellenic Institute Foundation Policy Journal, Vol. 3, Winter 2011-2012.

Karpozilos, Kostis. Μακαρθισμός: Τα Ελληνικά Ονόματα της Μαύρης Λίστας. ΤΑ ΝΕΑ, Βιβλιοδρόμιο, Ιούλιος (2011):16-19.

Kitroeff, Alexander. “The Limits of Political Transnationalism: The Greek American Lobby, 1970s-1990s.” Greek Diaspora and Migration Since 1700: Society, Politics, and Culture. Dimitris Tziovas, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

Pyrros, James G. The Cyprus File: Washington, DC-A Diary of the Cyprus Crisis in the Summer of 1974. New York: Pella Publishing, 2010.

James Pyrros, served for twenty years as top aide to Congressman Lucien Nedzi, Democrat from a Detroit district in Michigan. Pyrros offers a behinds-the-scenes account of efforts by Washington insiders, journalists, and activists to redirect American policy regarding the Cyprus crisis which was generated by the anti-Makarios coup initiated by junta in Greece. Extensive accounts of efforts of anti-junta efforts and the responses to the Turkish invasion.

Stivachtis, Yannis A. “Greek Anti-Americanism and Its Implications for the Relations Between Greece and the Hellenic Diaspora in the United States.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 26.1-2 (2010).

PSYCHOLOGY

Lillios, Emmanuel N. The Relationship Between Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help, Religious Orientation, and Greek Orthodox Religiosity. Diss. University of Iowa, 2010.

SOCIOLOGY

Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “A Critique of Symbolic Ethnicity: The Ideology of Choice?” Ethnicities, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (2009): 94-122.

QUERIES – ARCHIVE

Q: About potential publishers of Greek American material

Publishers with a tradition of interest in Greek America:

Arcadia Publishing

Aristide D.Caratzas, Publisher

Cosmos Publishing

Ohio University Press

Pella Publishing Company

Somerset Hall Press

Q: Research sources on author Theano Papazoglou Margari:

Two sources:

Thomopoulos, Elaine. Greek American Pioneer Women in Illinois. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.

Kalogeras, Yiorgos D. “Suspended Souls, Ensnaring Discourses: Theano Papazoglou-Margaris' Immigration Stories.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Vol. 8, No. 1 (1990): 85-96.

BLOGS AND RESOURCE PORTALS

a) Blogs

“Immigrations, Ethnicities, Racial Situations.”

(entries on a range of Greek American situations)

“My Greek Odyssey.”

Liberopoulos

(memoir and archival photographs, including U.S. magazine covers; Manos Hadjidakis and Melina Mercouri in New York City)

“Objects, Buildings, Situations.”

(entries on burial practices, the archaeology and history of Greek America, other)

Stephanie Nikolopoulos

(see under “Greekish” category for posts on Greek America by Stephanie Nikolopoulos, a writer)

Resource Portals

WORLDWIDE GREEK DIASPORA AND TRANSNATIONAL WORLDS

AUSTRALIA

Dailakis, Jim and Jimmy Santis. Youtube: Promotional Greek Show

Koundoura, Maria. “Finding One’s Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity.” Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture.
Ed. Henry Jenkins et al. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002: 556-565.

CANADA

Elafros, Athena. “Bouzouki HipHop? Representation and Identity in Greek-Canadian Rap Music.” Spanning the Distance: Popular Music in Canada. Holly Everett and Charity Marsh, eds. Forthcoming.

Gallant, Thomas, George Treheles, and Michael Vitopoulos. The 1918 Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto.
Toronto: Thessalonikeans Society of Metro Toronto: Canadian Hellenic Historical Society, 2005.

Jeffreys, Peter. Saint George’s Greek Orthodox Church: An Architectural and Iconographic Guide. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press (private printing), 2000.

Panagakos, Anastasia N. “Tracking Recycled Odyssey: Creating Transnational Families in The Greek Diaspora.” Global Networks. Vol. 4, Issue 3 (2004): 299-311.

“In this article Panagakos explores the types of transnational families forged by Greek Canadian women through cycles of migration between Canada and Greece. The focus is on how transmigrant women search for a spouse and heterosexual lifestyle embodied within a seemingly 'authentic' Greek experience. This recycled odyssey in which the women negotiate systems of gender and ethnic identification between two different social milieux highlights how parental guidance, class tensions and representations of gender and sexuality (re)form the Greek transnational family. These conflicts, and their resolutions, indicate how the ties of transnational families are negotiated to accommodate competing notions of sexuality, femininity, filial piety, parental investment and economic responsibility. Such cases are poorly documented since it is assumed that 'white' ethnic groups in North America are more assimilated. However, given the forces that drive transnationalism such as global capital, cheap travel, telecommunications and European integration belonging to an imagined community has different implications than it did in the past.”

GENERAL

Tziovas, Dimitris, ed. Greek Diaspora and Migration Since 1700. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2009.

LATIN AMERICA

Δαμηλάκου, M. Έλληνες μετανάστες στην Αργεντινή (1900-1970). Διαδικασίες συγκρότησης και μετασχηματισμοί μιας μεταναστευτικής κοινότητας,
Αθήνα, Ιστορικό Αρχείο – Πολιτιστική Συμβολή της Εμπορικής Τράπεζας της Ελλάδος, 2004.

Τάμης Αναστάσιος Μ. Οι Έλληνες της Λατινικής Αμερικής. Ελληνικά Γράμματα, Αθήνα: 2006 [Δίγλωσση έκδοση, Μετάφραση στην Ισπανική Margarita Larriera, Ίδρυμα Μαρία Τσάκου, Montevideo]