“Dirty Dagoes” Respond A Transnational History of a Racial Slur

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: Una faccia, una razza / μια φάτσα μια ράτσα: More to It Than Meets the Eye vii
4. Introduction: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation 1
5. Part I. Constructing, Historicizing, and Contesting Identities
6. “Dirty Dagoes” Respond A Transnational History of a Racial Slur 21
7. A Greek American Vice President? The View from the Italian American Community 46
8. Mediterranean Americans to Themselves 72
9. Part II. Identity Construction in Two Ethnic Communities
10. Style and Real Estate. The Architecture of Faith among Greek and Italian Immigrants, 1870–1925 103
11. Ethnic Language Education: A Comparative Study of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in New York City 141
12. Part III. Ethnic and Gender Identities in Literature and Music
13. Identity, Family, and Cultural Heritage. Narrative Polymorphy in Let Me Explain You and Catina’s Haircut 183
14. Ethnic Investigations of the American Crime Scene. Comparing Domenic Stansberry and George Pelecanos 210
15. Imaginative Living in Mediterranean New England 238
16. Part IV. Ethnic Identities and Visual Culture
17. An Ethnic Can’t Be Like Other People? The Construction of Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Kojak 269
18. Irrevocable or Irreversible? Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries 298
19. American(ish) Rebels. Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Moonstruck and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 323
20. Afterword: Beyond Methodological Singularity 351
21. Acknowledgments 365
22. List of Contributors 367
23. Index 373