Creating Greeks and Greek-Americans: Geographic and Educational Identity Constructions at the "Socrates" and "Koraes" Greek-American Schools

Autor/inn/en	Zervas, Theodore G.; Papadopoulos, Alex G.
Titel	Creating Greeks and Greek-Americans: Geographic and Educational Identity Constructions at the "Socrates" and "Koraes" Greek-American Schools
Quelle	In: European Education, 52 (2020) 1, S.16-32 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-4934
DOI	10.1080/10564934.2019.1682461
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Ethnic Groups; North Americans; Immigrants; Identification (Psychology); Nationalism; Cultural Influences; Language Maintenance; Cultural Maintenance; Community; Ethnicity; Native Language Instruction; World History; Greece; United States; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Ethnie; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Nationalismus; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Sprachpflege; Ethnizität; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Weltgeschichte; Griechenland; USA
Abstract	This paper reveals the complex intersectionalities of immigrant identity construction, nationalisms (and national exceptionalisms), and how Greek culture/language schools in the United States significantly influenced and created a Greek and Greek-American Identity. Drawing on the Chicago experience and the Socrates and Koraes Greek-American Schools, this paper interrogates the collaborative relationship between the Greek state, the Greek community in the United States and Greek culture/language schools. Part I of this paper discusses the spatial/scalar character of the construction of the Greek culture/language school phenomenon, and the role of the Greek state played in fixing the definition of "Greekness" by establishing a normative historiography and national identity for the homeland. Also considered in this part is the complex relationship of immigrant identity construction, nationalisms and the construction of Greek national identity using geography and history. Part II surveys the empirical dimension of the phenomenon of Greek culture/language education in the United States. Early Greek immigrant efforts sought to preserve a Greek cultural identity through the Greek culture/language schools. Over time questions arose on what type of Greek identity would be (or could be) preserved in the United States. (As Provided).
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