[MGSA-L] Greek American Ethnicity at Michigan

[Vassilios Lambropoulos]

The Modern Greek Program at the University of Michigan
is holding the 10th Annual Dimitri and Irmgard Pallas Lecture in Modern Greek Studies:
 
"Ethnicity Beyond the Ethnic Enclave: Greek Americans in Brooklyn"
by Prof. Alexander Kitroeff, History, Haverford College
 
Wednesday 03/14/2012 at 8:00PM 
Michigan League Hussey Room, 2nd floor, Hussey Room
911 N. University Ave., U-M Central Campus
 
The lecture is free and open to the public.  A reception will follow.
 
The stereotype of the newly wealthy, naive, and over-friendly Greek 
American on a short visit to Greece was summed up with the Greek term 
"Brooklis" - most probably because the first such visitor was from 
Brooklyn. There may well be a particular type of Greek American who 
resides in Brooklyn but he or she does not fit the stereotype.
 
This lecture and presentation explores the relationship between 
ethnicity and location by examining the ways New York's most 
self-assertive, blue-collar, and multi-ethnic borough has shaped the 
experiences of the many Greek Americans who grew up in Brooklyn. In 
doing so it highlights the careers of Greek Americans who gained 
national prominence growing up in a place where there was no ethnic 
concentration - no "Greektown" like Detroit's - and where there was a 
wide dispersal of the Greeks among several other, larger ethnic groups.
 

 

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