Chock 1986

Chock 1986

Reference
	Chock, Phyllis P. 1986. "The outsider wife and the divided self: The genesis of ethnic identities." In Cock and Wynan 1986. Interest level: academic.

Summary

"In the course of long interviews with Greek Americans about their families, I was sometimes offered a parenthetical remark or story about a remarkable relative, nearly always a woman who, though not Greek, had married into the family and so transformed her life that she 'became a Greek', in fact 'a better Greek than most all the rest of us'." Adaptation was made through language, cooking, and religion. Interviews produced texts partly aimed to explore what it means to be a Greek American to an American-born person more than 50 years after the parents arrived in the United States. Relates stories to the situation of the Greek American adapting to American culture different from the family.

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