The MGSA Transnational Studies Committee has now compiled its latest update of The Greek American Studies Resource Portal. The new material will soon be incorporated into the existing Portal (http://mgsa.org/Resources/port.html)
We list the update below for convenient perusal.
Lia Kindinger, committee member
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Peter Jeffreys, Co-Chairs
Lia Kindinger, committee member
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Peter Jeffreys, Co-Chairs
The Greek American Studies Resource Portal – Spring 2013
Anthropology and Cultural Studies
Nevradakis,
Michael. “From Assimilation to Kalomoira: Satellite Television and its Place in
New York City's Greek Community.” Global
Media Journal – Canadian Edition 4.1 (2011): 163-78.
Autobiographies
– Memoirs – Biography
Ball, Eric L. Sustained by
Eating, Consumed by Eating Right: Reflections, Rhymes, Rants and Recipes.
Albany: State U of New York P, 2013.
When Eric L. Ball returned to his hometown in northern New York after a
fifteen-year absence that included time in Greece, he began building his
version of the good life, largely revolving around growing, foraging, and
cooking safe and wholesome foods. Yet, surrounded by family and old memories,
he found himself grappling with the loss of his unlikely Mediterranean past and
struggling to navigate the interplay of intellectual convictions and emotional
needs as he strived to construct a fulfilling ethical life in the unsustainable
modern world. In Sustained by Eating, Consumed by Eating Right,
Ball shares his experiences and explores questions about food and drink,
including the relationship between recipes and learning, the significance of
the Mediterranean diet, how to cook authentic Greek foods in the United States,
and how to obtain safe and healthy food in a toxic world. Ultimately, Ball
considers broader questions about the evolving significance of family, the
nature of freedom, the future of the environment, and thinking that one can
change the world. The result is a bittersweet story that ponders questions
about living a decent and fulfilling life when it comes to food and family.
Archives
Greek-American Review – Haverford College's Magill Library is in the process
of providing on line access to the Greek-American
Review, a New York City-based monthly magazine edited by Peter Makrias that
appeared between 1991-2006. It was the continuation of the magazine Nea Yorki /New York. The contents of six
annual volumes are currently available in .pdf form at:
Hellenic-American Oral History Project:
Greek Americans (Queens College)
The Immigration History Research Center (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
The
Immigration History Research Center Archives contain the largest and most
significant collections of multi-ethnic immigrant experience in North America.
Established in 1965, the IHRC’s staff, affiliated ethnic scholars, and
communities contributed toward the archival collections. Archival holdings
reflect the experience of immigrants, ethnic communities and organizational or
resettlement records. The Greek American collections primarily fit within the
late 19th- and early 20th-century migration documentation (from a geographic
area described by Finland, Syria and Italy) collected by the IHRC, but
20th-century refugee materials also are collected. A related resource available
at the Special Collections and Rare Books division at the University of
Minnesota is the Basil Laourdas Modern Greek Collection of Greek literature.
The circulating holdings of the University Libraries contain thousands of books
on Greek topics that support the non-circulating archival and rare print
materials for studying Greek culture and immigration.
The
Greek American holdings at the IHRC contain several extraordinarily rich
collections documenting Hellenic immigration on multiple levels. The archives
of fraternal and educational organizations such as the Order of AHEPA or
Daughters of Penelope provide valuable information on the community life of
Greek-speaking immigrants and their descendants in many regions of the United
States, from Tarpon Springs, Florida, to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Papers of
immigration historian Theodore Saloutos document various stages of Greek
immigration, while the Demetrios Callimachos collection offers a wealth of
complementary visual materials, among other sources. Religion is well
represented in the papers of Rev. George Papademetriou which have recently been
processed to make them accessible. The IHRC also holds a significant library of
books pertaining to Greek immigration, as well as newspapers and magazines
produced by this immigrant group. The collections have been used in the past by
scholars researching regional Greek American histories, relationships between
immigrants and their country of origin, and other subjects of ethnic history
and comparative studies of multiple immigrant groups.
Contact
information
ihrc@umn.edu
The
Sketchbooks of Sam Karres, 1975-1996 (University of Michigan) http://www.lib.umich.edu/gallery/events/karres
Artist Sam Karres recently donated sketchbooks, dating from
1975-1996, to the University of Michigan Library. The collection will support
the study of both Greek America and Detroit.
Sam Karres has spent his life deriving inspiration
from the city of Detroit. With a sketchbook always in hand, he captured
Greektown before the casino, at a time when it was truly a Greek neighborhood.
Karres worked as an illustrator for Ford Motor Company for 25 years, but he
didn’t let his job interfere with his personal artistic life. He considered it
a great way to live: work eight hours, paint eight hours, and sleep eight
hours.
Dissertations
and Theses
Kindinger, Evangelia.
“Homebound: Diaspora Spaces and
Selves in Greek American
Return Narratives.” Diss. Ruhr
Universität Bochum (Germany),
2012.
Panagakos, Anastasia. Romancing
the Homeland: Transnational Lifestyles and Gender in the Greek Diaspora.
PhD diss. University of California, Santa Barbara. 2003.
Film
c)
Film Scholarship
Anagnostou, Yiorgos. “When ‘Second Generation’ Narratives and Hollywood
Meet: Making Ethnicity in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” MELUS 37.4 (2012): 139–63.
Basea, Erato. “My Life in Ruins: Hollywood and Holidays in Greece in Times of Crisis.” Interactions: Studies in Communication &
Culture 3.2 (2012): 199–208.
Cardon,
Lauren S. The “White Other” in American
Intermarriage Stories, 1945-2008. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
[includes discussion of My Big Fat Greek
Wedding]
Kalogeras,
Yiorgos. 2012. “Entering through the Golden Door: Cinematic Representations of a Mythical Moment.” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 21.1
(2012): 77–99.
Globalization,
Transnationalism, Diaspora
Fakiolas, Rosetos. “Οι Ελληνες twn ΗΠΑ” [The
Greeks of the United States]. Ελληνισμός της Διασποράς, Τόμος G΄ [The Hellenism of Diaspora, Vol. C]. Eds. Antonios
Kontis and Rosetos Fakiolas. Patras: Greek Open University, 2002.
Kitroeff, Alexander. “Emigration
Transatlantique et Strategie Familiale: La Grèce” [Transatlantic
Emigration and Family Strategy: Greece]. Espaces
et Familles dans l’ Europe du Sud à l’âge moderne [Space and Families in Southern Europe in the Contemporary Era]. Ed.
Stuart Woolf. Paris: Editions de la
Maison des Sciences de l’ Homme, 1992. 241-70.
------. “Υπερατλαντική Μετανάστευση” [Transatlantic Emigration].
Ιστορία της Ελλάδας του 20ου Αιώνα [History of Greece in
the Twentieth Century, Vol.1 1900-1922]. Ed. Christos Hadziiosif. Athens:
Vivliorama, 1999.
------. “Εμπορικές Παροικίες και Μετανάστες” [Merchant Colonies
and Immigrants]. Ιστορία της Ελλάδας του 20ου Αιώνα, Β1 1922-1240 [History of Greece
in the Twentieth Century, Vol. B1
1922-1940]. Ed. Christos Hadziiosif. Athens:Vivliorama, 2003.
------. “Βόρεια και Νότια Αμερική: οι Ομογενείς στις ΗΠΑ, τον Καναδά,
την Λατινική Αμερική” [North and South America: The Greek Diaspora in the U.S.,
Canada and Latin America]. Ιστορία του
Νέου Ελληνισμού 1770-2000 [History of Modern Hellenism, 1770-2000]. Vol. 9.
Ed. Vasilis Panayotopoulos. Athens: Nea Grammata, 2004. 305-18.
------. “Βόρεια Αμερική: Οι Ελληνικές Κοινότητες στις ΗΠΑ και
τον Καναδά” [North America: the
Greek Communities in the U.S. & Canada]. Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού 1770-2000 [History of Modern Hellenism,
1770-2000]. Vol. 10. Ed. Vasilis Panayotopoulos. Athens: Nea Grammata, 2004.
297-308.
Kontis,
Antonios and Rosetos Fakiolas. “Εννοιολογικές αποσαφηνíσεις” [Concept Clarification]. Ελληνισμός της Διασποράς, Τόμος Α΄ [The Hellenism of Diaspora, Vol.
A]. Eds. Antonios Kontis and Rosetos Fakiolas. Patras: Greek Open University,
2002.
Roudometof, Victor. Globalization
and Orthodox Christianity. Routledge, 2013.
History
c) History
and Historiography Scholarship
Kitroeff, Alexander. “Ο Τύπος ως Πηγή για την Ιστορία των
Ελλήνων στις ΗΠΑ” [The Press as a Source for the History of the Greeks in the
United States]. Ο Ελληνικός Τύπος1784 ως
σήμερα [The Greek Press Since 1784: Historical & Theoretical Perspectives].
Ed. Loukia Droulia. Athens: INE/EIE, 2005.
------.
“Οι Ελληνες στις ΗΠΑ: 1922-1940” [The Greeks in the
United States: 1922-1940]. Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού 1770-2000
[History of Modern Hellenism, 1770-2000]. Vol. 7. Ed. Vasilis Panayotopoulos.
Athens: Nea Grammata, 2004. 323-60.
-------. “Greek-American Ethnicity, 1919-1939.” To Hellenikon, Studies in Honor of Speros
Vryonis, Jr. Vol. II. Eds. Jelisaveta Stanojevich Allen et al. New York:
Caratzas, 1993. 353-71.
Pomonis,
Katherine. Uncovering the History of the
Albuquerque Greek Community, 1880-1952. Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2012.
Why
did Greeks in the late 1800s cross a sea, an ocean and a continent, to start
new lives in the United States? Why did they eventually migrate to a small
dusty town in the desert Southwest? How did Albuquerque become a center of
Greek-America in the 1930s? And how did the decision to build the church in
1944 in the Huning Highland originate from a tragic event? Uncovering the
History of the Albuquerque Greek Community: New Voices of New Mexico answers
these questions and more. This book also details the compassionate
response of the community to the appearance of Greek lungers seeking the cure
to the ravages of tuberculosis, and traces the decision to establish in 1937 in
Albuquerque the Nation’s only Greek-American tuberculosis sanatorium sponsored
by the AHEPA. This book begins with the first Greeks coming, at the turn of the
Nineteenth Century, to Albuquerque with the railroad. It details how they began
immigrating to the town in large numbers after the First World War, and shows
how, by the 1920’s, these indomitable men owned and operated numerous
businesses in the heart of new Albuquerque. It also shows how their brides made
their own unique contribution by transforming the Greek population into a
community. They assimilated into the United States and contributed to
Albuquerque's ethnic and cultural diversity. This country gave them
opportunity, and in turn, they gave their best.
Identity
and Immigration
Kitroeff
Alexander. “Η Ελληνο-Αμερικανική Πολιτισμική
Ταυτότητα την Δεκαετία του 1990” [Greek American Cultural Identity in the 1990s].
Eds. Michalis Damanakis et al. Ιστορία της Νεοελληνικής Διασποράς – Ερευνα
και Διδασκαλία [History of the Modern Greek Diaspora Research and
Instruction]. Rethymno: University of Crete, 2004.
------. “Greek
American Identity in the 1980s.” Arméniens et Grecs en Diaspora: Approches comparatives. Eds. Eric Bruneau, Ioanis Hassiotis, Martine Hovanessian
& Claire Mouradian. Athens: L’École Francaise d’ Athènes, 2007.
Journals
(new category)
Journal of Modern Hellenism http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Centers/ByzantineGreek/Programs/Pages/Publications.aspx
Voices: A Literary Journal of the Voices
of Hellenism Literary Society Celebrating Global Hellenism Through Literature [Vol. 1(1), January 2013] http://www.voicesofhellenism.org/
Literature
and Poetry
a)
Literature
Jenkins, Suzanne. The Greeks of Beaubien Street. North Charleston: CreateSpace, Independent Publishing Platform,
2012.
b)
Poetry
Papadopoulos, Stephanos. The
Black Sea. Rhinebeck: Sheep Meadow Press, 2012.
The Black Sea explores the
historic "great catastrophe" of the Pontic Greeks of Asia Minor in
the 1920s through a series of "sonnet-monologues" or voices from the
past. Priests, prostitutes, soldiers, and a bizarre cast of characters move
through this poetic reimagining of a tragic chapter in Greece’s history. Based
on the author's own family history, as well a fictitious retelling of scenes
from the population exchange between Greece and Turkey, the poems in this book
jump from the tragic to the humorously absurd, and focus on the very human folly
of war, suffering and exile. Intrigued by the idea of an "inherited memory
of war" and a series of old family photographs, the author set off on a
motorcycle trip of the southern Black Sea, exploring the old Greek villages and
monasteries of the Pontic Greeks and travelling across the same landscapes
still inhabited by the ghosts of Strabo, Xenophon and Alexander the Great.
c)
Literature and Poetry Scholarship
Rentzou,
Effie. “Stranger in the City: Self and Urban Space in the Work of Nicolas
Calas.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies
26.2 (2008): 283-309.
Politics and Ethnicity
Kitroeff
Alexander. “Ο Ρόλος του Ελληνο-Αμερικανικού
Λόμπι στην Εξωτερική Πολιτική των
ΗΠΑ” [The Role of the Greek American Lobby in U.S.
Foreign Policy, 1992-2001]. Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική: Μια
Συνολική Προσέγγιση [Con-temporary Greek Foreign Policy: A Comprehensive Approach].
Ed. Panayotis Tsakonas. Athens: Sideris, 2003.
CANADA
Resource Portal
Greek
Canadian History Project: The Library Archives at York University are making
the transition from the old
to
the new website: