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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface: Una faccia, una razza / μια φάτσα μια ράτσα: More to It Than Meets the Eye | vii
Fred L. Gardaphé
Introduction: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation | 1
Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, and Theodora Patrona
Part I: Constructing, Historicizing, and Contesting Identities
“Dirty Dagoes” Respond: A Transnational History of a Racial Slur | 23
Andonis Piperoglou
A Greek American Vice President? The View from the Italian American Community | 46
Stefano Luconi
Mediterranean Americans to Themselves | 72
Jim Cocola
Part II: Identity Construction in Two Ethnic Communities
Style and Real Estate: The Architecture of Faith among Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870–1925 | 105
Kostis Kourelis
Ethnic Language Education:
A Comparative Study of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in New York City | 141
Angelyn Balodimas-Bartolomei and Fevronia K. Soumakis
Part III: Ethnic and Gender Identities in Literature and Music
Identity, Family, and Cultural Heritage:
Narrative Polymorphy in Let Me Explain You and Catina’s Haircut | 185
Eleftheria Arapoglou
Ethnic Investigations of the American Crime Scene:
Comparing Domenic Stansberry and George Pelecanos | 210
Francesca de Lucia
Imaginative Living in Mediterranean New England | 238
Panayotis League
Part IV: Ethnic Identities and Visual Culture
An Ethnic Can’t Be Like Other People?
The Construction of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Kojak | 271
Sostene Massimo Zangari
Irrevocable or Irreversible?
Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries | 298
Yiorgos Kalogeras
American(ish) Rebels: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 323
Michail C. Markodimitrakis
Afterword: Beyond Methodological Singularity | 351
Donna R. Gabaccia
Acknowledgments | 365
List of Contributors | 367
Index | 373
