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Informationen zum Autor Yiorgos Anagnostou is an associate professor of modern Greek and American ethnic studies at the Ohio State University. He has published widely on ethnicity and immigration in various scholarly disciplines! including ethnography! folklore! sociology! and diaspora and cultural studies Klappentext 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 how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. Although it draws from the scholarship on a specific ethnic group, "Contours of White Ethnicity "exhibits a sophisticated, interdisciplinary methodology, which makes it of particular interest to scholars researching ethnicity and race in the United States and for those charting the directions of future research for white ethnicities. Zusammenfassung 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.
