Author: Peter C. Moskos
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351516701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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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.
Author: Charles C. Moskos
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412824834
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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This is an engrossing account of Greek Americans--their history, strengths, conflicts, aspirations, and contributions. This is the story of immigrants, their children and grandchildren, most of whom maintain an attachment to Greek ethnic identity even as they have become one of this country's most successful ethnic groups.
Author: Marilyn Rouvelas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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"A clear and comprehensive guide to the religious and secular life of the Greek-American community," including naming a baby, planning a baptism, observing name days, baking communion bread, buying popular Greek music, what to say (in Greek) on special occasions, and much more.
Author: Alice Scourby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780805784237
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Author: Alexander Kitroeff
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants. Assuming the responsibility of running Greek-language schools and encouraging local parishes to engage in cultural and social activities, the church became the most important Greek American institution and shaped the identity of Greeks in the United States. Kitroeff digs into these traditional activities, highlighting the American church's dependency on the "mother church," the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the use of Greek language in the Sunday liturgy. Today, as this rich biography of the church shows us, Greek Orthodoxy remains in between the Old World and the New, both Greek and American.
Author: Theodore Saloutos
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520374827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1956.
Author: Dimitris Monos
Publisher: Facts On File
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Greeks, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.
Author: Theodore Saloutos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: George A. Kourvetaris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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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.
Author: Jayne Clark Jones
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Traces the history of Greek emigration from classical times to the present day with emphasis on the problems of Greek immigrants in the United States and their contributions to America's history and culture.
