Greek American Studies_A Note

The thing is, methodologically speaking, you cannot understand hyphenated populations (say Greek Americans) by neglecting the mediating, sometimes constitutive operation of the second component of the pair. Contemporary ethnic festivals, education, religion, nostalgia (sometimes reduced to a single modality), adaptations, documentaries, films, subjectivities cannot be understood independently from various modalities of US multiculturalism. Ethnic (and diasporic) studies require engagement not only with the ethnic component but also American studies. Otherwise we are producing simplistic, ahistorical, work, irrelevant to broader academic conversations.

Re. Greek American studies, one of the problems plaguing the field is that soft or non-existent peer review, as I have indicated elsewhere, contributes to this kind of ahistorical research ...