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 Brodkin, Karen, 13, 91, 146, 232–33n9 Broumas, Olga, 168, 196–97, 246n5 Callinicos, Constance, 19, 249n7; American Aphrodite, 97, 114–28 capitalism:and antimodernist nostalgia,223; critique of,200–206,253n2;and exploitation of immigrants,204;impact on Dodecanese Islands,179,199–200;and individualism 57 Chock, Phyllis, 87, 102­ –3, 246n5 Chouliaras,Yiorgos, 144 Clifford,James,30,33,145,147–48,150,196,213 Constantakos, Chrysie, 99–100, 113 Cowan, Jane, 118, 124 cultural studies and analysis of white ethnicity, 29–30 dance (folk): and GreekAmerican identity, 247n16; and patriarchy, 118, 122–23; and women’s community, 124–25 di Leonardo, Micaela, 9, 55, 57–59, 98, 126, 215, 218, 242–43n23 Dorson, Richard, 19, 33, 34–41, 70–71, 117, 134, 216, 235–36n5 Doumanis, Nicholas, 178, 184 Du Bois,W. E. B., 155 Dukakis, Michael, 144 Dukakis, Olympia, 76, 182, 186–87 Dyer, Richard, 158 eghoismos, 85 Ellis Island Immigration Museum, 4–6 empathy, 148, 154–61, 250n11, 250n12 ethnicization: as assimilation, 68, 83–86; of American society, 9, 86, 126, 144 ethnic preservation as cultural translation, 87 ethnological antimodernism, 215; and white ethnicity, 216–17 EuropeanAmericans, 63–66 Fischer, Michael, 3, 10, 87, 110, 140–41, 240n6 folklore: as cultural production, 31–33; in Greece, 38, 44–46; and GreekAmericans, 33–38, 106; and patriarchy, 116–19; and popular ethnography, 21–22 Abu-Lughod, Lila, 30, 143, 145, 159–60 African Americans: and acceptable difference, 9; in America,America (Kazan), 130–31; conflict with Greek Americans, 93; education and historical remembering, 158; and G.I. Bill, 234n11; Greek American solidarity with, 155–58, 182–83, 208–9, 233–34n10; and interracial empathy, 153, 250n9; marriage with Greek Americans, 136–38; and model minorities, 91. See also interracial marriage; interracial solidarity; race talk; racism AHEPA, 53–55, 94, 207, 209, 239n5, 242n20, 243n24 Alba, Richard, 15, 63–68, 72–73, 75, 144, 238n3 Alexiou, Margaret, 38, 40, 44–45, 246n6 American Aphrodite (Callinicos), 97, 114–28 American Hellenic Institute Foundation, 231n2 American Hellenic ProgressiveAssociation. See AHEPA Amulet of Greek Earth,An (Papanikolas), 4, 146–51 Argyrou,Vassos, 223, 253n13 Armenian Americans: and ColdWar political persecution, 256n13; and economic success, 242n17; ethnicity amongAmerican-born, 87; identity as obligation, 95; and PBS Heritage Specials Series, 75; solidarity with Greek and Turkish immigrants, 255n10; and symbolic ethnicity, 163 Asian Americans: as abject subjects, 156; education and historical remembering, 158 assimilation: as condition for distinction, 189; into ethnicity, 86; ethnicization as, 67–68, 83–86; into whiteness, 53, 68, 216, 223 Augustinos, Gerasimos, 178–79, 218, 253n5 Bakalian,Anny, 66, 67, 81, 99, 157, 163, 238n2, 240n7 Ball, Eric, 198 Bauman, Zygmunt, 169–70, 190–91 Bazin, Jean, 77 Bellah, Robert, 99, 111, 113, 245n2 Bellstone,The (Kalafatas), 164, 166, 168­ –69, 172, 187–91, 215–20 Bottomley, Gillian, 124–25, 134, 144, 248n18 index  Index and Occidentalism, 84–86, 90; personal names, significance of, 183–87; and positive stereotyping, 89; racialization of, 48–53, 92; relation to Greeks in Greece, 85; and roots, 23–24; self-representation, conflict over, 4–6; and shame, 107, 118, 130, 248n1; and success, 78–79; and unmaking of whiteness, 154–60, 182, 233n10; working class, 78, 82, 110, 244n29 Greek Americans, The, 72, 74, 75–90, 98, 219. See alsoVeras, George Greek diaspora: and identity, 173–75, 252n8; and political activism, 202–3, 221, 254n7; prestige in, 189 Greek Orthodoxy: and antiracism, 138; and community, 99–101, 245n1; contributions of Greek immigrants to, 149; and deracialization of Greek identity, 248–49n4; and empathy, 250n11; and ethnicity, 66, 78–79. See also religion Greek poetry: as family inheritance in diaspora, 202–3; and political activism, 199–203 Hall, Stuart, 156, 166, 175, 250–51n2 Halter, Marilyn, 71 HellenicTimes Scholarship Fund, 239n5 Hellenism: global, 174–75; and GreekAmerican identity, 41–42, 46, 54, 66, 216–17; and NewAge, 217; obligation toward, 93–95; ownership, conflict over, 93; racialized, 92–93; as usable past, 95 heritage: as cultural production, 69–70; as ethnic history, 88–89, 244n26; and ethnic identity, 86–90; of fear, 211; leftist politics as, 203–6, 215 Herzfeld, Michael, 8, 21–22, 24, 38–39, 44–45, 55, 85, 89, 134, 180–81, 189, 197 Hsu, Ruth, 91 interracial marriage, 136–38, 248–49n4. See also AfricanAmericans; racism interracial solidarity, 154–61. See alsoAfrican Americans; racism isotimia, 182, 205 ItalianAmericans: and acceptable difference, 9; in diaspora, 171–72; education and historical remembering, 158; literary representation of 132; and PBS Heritage Special Series...

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