Yiorgos Anagnostou: 2 books
Contours of White Ethnicity
Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou 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...
by Georgia Aitaki, Maria Akritidou, Yiorgos Anagnostou
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary...