[MGSA-L] Greek Americans, African Americans

[Artemis Leontis]

A special thanks
to the MGSA Transnational Studies Committee
for these resources
at yet another urgent, heartbreaking
exhausting moment in American history
and to Yiorgos Anagnostou for sharing them
and digging many of them up.

- Artemis

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 10:55 PM Anagnostou, Georgios <anagnostou.1 at osu.edu>
wrote:

> From the desk of the MGSA Transnational Studies Committee:
>
> The urgency of these days provides the context to learn about Greek
> Americans in connection to African Americans
>
> Sources: Documentaries, novels, short stories, autobiography, biography,
> commentaries, book reviews, scholarship
>
> • Mini-documentary, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziGTSRMQic&t=193s
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DziGTSRMQic&t=193s&fbclid=IwAR3B_iPhmK8cl6AWIbYsqAzQaTCla_YTeo02PAUuwmWP4XQoQtg4dKE2Egw>
>
> • Dan Georgakas, "Black Metropolis," chapter in his book, My Detroit:
> Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City
>
> Review by Nicholas Alexiou, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/475991/pdf
> <https://muse.jhu.edu/article/475991/pdf?fbclid=IwAR32iap0uI5C7xr9wf97G_KUV3gieVYC6PpdV5RzCczsopCkCRxOFaODjvA>
>
> • George Pelecanos, The Turnaround
>
> For a review see,
> http://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/…/greek…
> <https://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/2013/12/greek-americans-and-african-americans.html?fbclid=IwAR3lGH2HE-LG_2r209qIuV7E9RQLIkMTZtY45pgVTowd3Z8UrfCg0z2mYDg>
>
> • Harry Mark Petrakis, A Tale of Color
>
> For commentary see, http://www.newdiaspora.com/a-tale-of-color/
> <http://www.newdiaspora.com/a-tale-of-color/?fbclid=IwAR2raE384qi6Mwagyo77unkY5BXvFChLKIWXQ6_KD5TEFp3ZUl9PsllmbvI>
>
> Do established immigrants and their offspring have any ethical and
> political responsibility toward America? This question recurs with urgency
> in the writings of several Greek American authors, including Harry Mark
> Petrakis. A well-known storyteller, Petrakis is particularly invested in
> this issue, drawing inspiration from his parents’ deep appreciation for
> their acceptance in the United States. As the beneficiaries of America’s
> magnanimity, the “sons and daughters of immigrants, grandsons and
> granddaughters of immigrants,” he implores, “must renew and fulfill” the
> vision of America as a sanctuary of difference.
>
> To highlight his vision of ethnic responsibility toward American
> diversity, Petrakis crafts a story – entitled “A Tale of Color” – based on
> a real life event experienced by his mother, Presbytera Petrakis. The
> author, who often heard his mother recite this life in a family setting,
> turns it into a harrowing narrative dramatizing the human cost of racial
> exclusion.
>
> • Apollo Papafrangou,
> https://www.apollopapafrangou.net/category/african-american/
> <https://www.apollopapafrangou.net/category/african-american/?fbclid=IwAR3TLuTP574S2mQl1OmSTNwNoyr9qeanQHfv4yHMRI3h9J-6JnVqrNhZxb4>
>
> • Yiorgos Anagnostou, "Do the Right Thing: Identities as Citizenship in
> U.S. Orthodox Christianity and Greek America."
>
> https://ergon.scienzine.com/art…/articles/do-the-right-thing
> <https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/articles/do-the-right-thing?fbclid=IwAR38JOpR8GI4V8VSEmCKEEWnDIwBQiJN4CIfxQIKMte3eNeBZofxnqa6thU>
>
> • George Lipsitz, Midnight at the Barrelhouse
> The Johnny Otis Story
>
> https://www.upress.umn.edu/…/bo…/midnight-at-the-barrelhouse
> <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/midnight-at-the-barrelhouse?fbclid=IwAR3TwWGOLO7nbcqPlViuLlZ3Xzqn85d_v73BOjjRd5YWOBx5yw-axDb45uc>
>
> • Athanasios Grammenos,
> https://www.thenationalherald.com/…/the_late_archbishop_ia…/
> <https://www.thenationalherald.com/archive_church/arthro/the_late_archbishop_iakovos_u_s_greece_relations-19342/?fbclid=IwAR2cw4lQbpwrpdXlKYwnVBFieoaz422XCQjP7fIZEnoUiGsId9TpAdw3oFw>
>
>
> Yiorgos Anagnostou
>
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