Ottoman Greek Immigrant Women

How did Ottoman Greek immigrant women negotiate their identity against a dominant Greek immigrant identity paradigm in the early twentieth-century United States? A micro-, meso-, and macro-level model is used to answer this question by exploring experiences of Ottoman Greek migrant women whose identity negotiation was with gender, Greek immigrants, and American Whiteness. Based on the model as applied to excerpts from thirty-six interviews with descendants of Ottoman Greek immigrant women, the women's use of local, racial, and pan-ethnic appellations served as a means to claim American Whiteness. Ottoman Greek immigrant women's identity negotiation provides information about the construction of Greek American identity

Ethnic group · Identity (music · Identity formation · Identity negotiation · Immigration · Negotiation · Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping · Geological and Geophysical Studies · Geological Modeling and Analysis