Η Σκορπισμένη μου Γενιά _ Μπάμπης Τσετίνης

«Σαν παραμύθι πάλιωσε 

μα σαν αλήθεια καίει

η ξενιτιά αγόρασε 

της προσφυγιάς τα χρέη»

http://megalaiko.blogspot.com/2014/09/blog-post_31.html

Visual Representations of U.S. Greek Ethnicity

Projecting an ethnoreligious – Greek Orthodox – identity

Spaces of Greek America, The Greek Station

Butte, Montana, 2013

We were extended full hospitality

Photo Credits @ARC

Mary K. Mousalimas (1926-2014), A Preservation Activist

Mary K. Mousalimas (1926 - 2014)

Obituary

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Mary K. Mousalimas

July 28, 1926-September 6, 2014 Mary Kumarelas Mousalimas was born on July 28, 1926 in Salt Lake City, UT; the daughter of Demetrios "Jim" and Eugenia "Virginia" Kumarelas who were originally from Greece. The eldest of five children, she was predeceased by Eleni, Anna, and John, and is survived by Bobbie.

Mary attended Westminster College in Salt Lake City. She was an active member of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church from her youth; she was a member of the Church Choir and at 17 years old established the parish's first Sunday School program.

In 1948, Mary married Andrew Mousalimas, settled in Oakland and raised her beloved family of four children. From 1968 to 1990, she was the co-owner and restaurateur at Kings X, an Oakland landmark of its time.

Mary's passion was the preservation of Greek/American history honoring her parents' immigrant generation. In 1976, she spearheaded saving the first Greek Orthodox Church in the East Bay from demolition, establishing it as a national and state historical landmark on 10th and Castro Streets, Oakland. Mary was the founder and chairwoman of the Ascension Historical Society from 1989 to 2010. She co-founded the Preservation of American Hellenic History website (pahh.com) in 2002; and was instrumental in organizing a series of conferences and symposia from 1998 to 2007 in California, Utah and Arizona for the preservation and dissemination of Greek-American history. In 2006 Mary was honored by the Ascension Cathedral as Mother of the Year, and in 2009 received the medal of St. Paul, the highest honor awarded to a member of the laity by the Greek Orthodox Church.

She is predeceased by her baby, Andrew, and survived by her beloved husband of 66 years, Andrew Mousalimas; children Soter Mousalimas, Eugenia (George) Ahlas, Paula (Dean) Gassoumis, James (Diane) Mousalimas; grandchildren Harry (Victoria), Andreas, Zachary, Ria, Ariane, Gianna, Paris; and great-granddaughter Anna Maria.

Viewing on Wednesday, September 10, from 4 to 8 pm at Alameda Funeral& Cremation Services, 1415 Oak St, Alameda. Trisagion Service on Thursday evening, September 11 at 7 pm and funeral service on Friday, September 12 at 10 am; both services will be held at the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Ascension, 4700 Lincoln Avenue in Oakland. Interment Mt. View Cemetery, Oakland

In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Ascension Cathedral General Fund and/or the Ascension Historical Society. For further information please call: Harry W. Greer, Funeral Director (FDR-745). Alameda Funeral and Cremation Services, Alameda. 510-522-6020- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=mary-k-mousalimas&pid=172407975#sthash.73EKeBKl.dpuf

Spaces of Greek America

Oakland, CA

Photo Credits @ARC

Αντώνης Νταλγκάς _ Της Ξενιτιάς ο Πόνος (1935)

Για σένα κλαίγω μάνα μου γλυκιά kαι υποφέρω μες στην ξενιτιά. Δεν θέλω μάνα ποτέ να κλάψεις, για το παιδί σου κερί ν' ανάψεις.

"Tis Xenitias O Ponos" (The Exile's Grief)) is about loneliness and the condition of having to live in a foreign land, a common theme in rembetika. The melody is from the famous Turkish song called "her yer karanlik", often recorded in both Turkey and Greece from the 20s up to the present day.

This song was probably recorded in Athens 1935 for release in the U.S. ca. 1938. Vocals: A. Dalgas, Lira: Lambros Leondharidis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MulOdQFyFLA

Interviews with Famous Greeks – Diamanda Galas

Diamanda Galas

Hailed as one of the most important singers of our time, Diamanda Galαs has earned international acclaim for her highly original and politically charged performance works, as well as her memorable rendition of jazz and blues. A resident of New York City since 1989, she was born to Anatolian and Greek parents, who always encouraged her gift for piano.

Galαs has contributed her voice and music to Francis Ford Coppola's film, Dracula, Oliver Stones' Natural Born Killers, Spanish/Nicaraguan filmmaker Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez's El Immortal (The Immortal), as well as films by Wes Craven, Clive Barker, Derek Jarman, Hideo Nakata, and many others. In 2005, Galas was awarded Italy's first Demetrio Stratos International Career Award. Her much-anticipated CD, Guilty Guilty Guilty, a compilation of tragic and homicidal love songs, was released by Caroline in the U.S. and MUTE UK worldwide on April 1, 2008; You're My Thrill, will be released in 2009.

See, http://www.hellenism.net/interview_diamanda_galas.html

Phyllis P. Chock, Professor Emerita

A pioneer and one of the most sophisticated anthropologists of Greek America. A heart-felt thank you!

Congratulations to Dr. Phyllis Chock on her retirement after teaching at CUA since 1971. She served six years as department chair, as many as editor of the Anthropological Quarterlyand, as president of the Anthropological Society of Washington, organized a year-long symposium that resulted in a volume she edited (with June Wyman) on Discourse and the Social Life of Meaning, published by the Smithsonian Press in 1986. Over the years, her research focus moved from expressions of ethnicity among Greek-Americans to cultural constructions of citizen and alien in path-breaking work on Congressional testimony which contributed to the revaluation of "ethnicity" and "identity" in American anthropology now incorporated into the US Census. At CUA, Dr. Chock supervised dissertation projects from New Guinea to Africa to the US and taught courses from theory and method to linguistic anthropology, including immensely popular courses on gender, cultures in a global world, and identity in America. The Undergraduate Student Government recognized that achievement with their James E. Dornan Memorial teacher of the year award in 2004, and on her retirement the department presented her an antique Chinese bowl of appropriately ambiguous provenance along with our genuine thanks for her unambiguous contributions. http://anthropology.cua.edu/faculty/phyllischock.cfm

Contours of White Ethnicity _ Roundtable Discussion

Ο διάλογος για το Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Ohio University Press, 2009) είναι τώρα διαθέσιμος. Τρείς ακαδημαϊκοί σχολιάζουν από την σκοπιά των Ιταλοαμερικανικών σπουδών, και από την πλευρά μου απαντώ. (Σημείωση, το βιβλίο είναι υπό μετάφραση από τις εκδόσεις Νήσος. Μεταφράστρια, the very accomplished, Πελαγία Μαρκέτου)

The roundtable discussion of Contours of White Ethnicity is now available for free, thanks to the generosity of the Italian American Review!

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/sites/calandra.i-italy.org/files/files/Contours%20Group%20Review%20from%20IAR_3_1.pdf

Greeks Gone West _ Of Greeks and Greek Americans

H «Καθημερινή» παρουσιάζει το αφιέρωμα της αμερικανικής πρεσβείας στην Αθήνα σε 23 Έλληνες και Ελληνοαμερικανούς που έκαναν το ελληνικό όνειρο να ανθίσει.

“Greeks Gone West” is a series of video vignettes the US Embassy in Athens made about the world of work in the US. Through the prism of Greeks and Greek-Americans with interesting work lives, we hope to improve the understanding of US society and to show possibilities during a time, in Greece, when life seems full of limitations and frustrations.

Each video is roughly three minutes long and addresses how each of the 23 participants came to do what they do, whether a music supervisor, a film director, an HIV doctor, a restaurateur, an advertising guru, fashion designer and several other people, and what they plan to do next. We hear about their experiences and relations with Greece, but mainly we hear how they've pushed through the toughest parts of their journey. We plan to profile a pathologist, a music producer, a fashion designer, a chef, a video game designer, and several other people.

For an overview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LC614KowkM

For a list of interviews, http://athens.usembassy.gov/greeks_gone_west2.html