Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction WhyWhite Ethnicity?Why Ethnic Pasts? 1 Chapter one The Politics and Poetics of Popular Ethnography Folk Immigrant,Ethnic,and Racial Pasts in History and Discourse 29 Chapter two Whither Collective Ethnic Identities? White Ethnics and the SlipperyTerrain of European Americanness 62 Chapter three Whose Ethnic Community? Gendered Pasts and Polyphonies of Belonging 96 Chapter four Interrogating EthnicWhiteness, Building Interracial Solidarity Popular Ethnography as Cultural Critique 129 Chapter five Ethnicity as Choice? Roots and Identity as a Narrative Project 162 viii Contents Chapter six Redirecting Ethnic Options Historical Routes of Heritage 193 Afterword White Ethnicity as Cultural Becoming 224 Notes 231 References 259 Index 281 ...