Educating Greek Americans

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Greek Americans

The Vanishing Greek Americans: A Crisis of Identity by Alice Scourby

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-219
Author(s):  
Yiorgos Anagnostou
Keyword(s):  
Greek Americans

Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia, and the Greek Diaspora

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Charles Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
American Case ◽  
Greek Americans ◽  
The Relationship

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 omogéneia, which means “of the same génos or ancestry” but also “homogeneity.” In the twentieth century, omogeneís 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. Omogéneia 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.

Book Review: Greek Americans

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-230
Author(s):  
Eva E. Sandis
Keyword(s):  
Greek Americans

Assimilation and Voting Behavior: A Study of Greek-Americans

1973 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig R. Humphrey ◽  
Helen Brock Louis
Keyword(s):  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Greek Americans

Book Review: The Greek Americans

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-160
Author(s):  
Adamantia Pollis
Keyword(s):  
Greek Americans

Studies on Greek Americans

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasilikie Demos ◽  
George A. Kourvetaris
Keyword(s):  
Greek Americans

Three Generations of Greek Americans: A Study in Ethnicity

1980 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Scourby
Keyword(s):  
Three Generations ◽  
Greek Americans
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