Like a fluffy bat of cotton candy, independent scholar Ann Flesor Beck’s Sweet Greeks spins a regional history of a Greek immigrant community in early twentieth-century Illinois around the central core of her own family history. Her grandfather, Gus Flesor, emigrated in 1901 from Pigadakia, Greece, to the south of Tripoli, then to Chicago, and eventually to small-town Illinois. Like thousands of other Greeks, he learned the confectionary trade from family connections, and in 1904 he opened his Candy Kitchen—one of the Greek-owned candy, ice cream, and fruit stores that were ubiquitous in early twentieth-century American cities and towns. He and his children operated the store until the 1970s, and the author and her sister reopened it in 2004. For Beck, Gus Flesor is an exemplar of theGreek immigrant confectioner: his shopwas an icon of family devotion and the immigrant’s dream of success and respect through hard work. His Greek identity, intermittently a target of nativist threats, more often opened kin networks of skill, trade, and loyalty. Beck first reviews Greek history. Her look back to the Bronze Age is not strictly necessary, but her account pushes forward quickly and elucidates the political and economic reasons for the Greek emigration that began in the 1890s. Beck places Greeks among other European immigrants arriving around the turn of the twentieth century: overwhelmingly male casual laborers in search of money to establish themselves or acquire dowries for their sisters. Although Greek immigrants were relatively small in number, Beck contends that, as southern Europeans, they felt a pressure to Americanize, particularly in light of eugenic disapproval targeting them as an “inferior race.”However, Greeks also benefited from the wider cultural idealization of ancient Greece, an association utilized by American Hellenic associations. Jane Addams welcomed the Greek immigrants living near Hull-House, Grace Abbott studied them, and Addams assisted organizers such as Georgia Bitzis Pooley, an educated Greek woman who created a Philoptochos (“Friends of the Poor”) Society of Greek Women and a Socrates School for women (67–68).

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希腊糖果商、康提厨房和 KKK - Ann Flesor Beck。甜蜜的希腊人：中心地带的第一代移民糖果商。厄巴纳：伊利诺伊大学出版社，2020 年。xi + 303 页。27.95 美元（平装本），ISBN 978-0252085314。

就像一只毛茸茸的棉花糖蝙蝠，独立学者安弗莱索贝克的《甜蜜的希腊人》围绕她自己家族历史的中心核心，讲述了 20 世纪初伊利诺伊州希腊移民社区的区域历史。她的祖父古斯弗莱索于 1901 年从希腊的皮加达基亚移民到的黎波里南部，然后到芝加哥，最后到伊利诺伊州的小镇。像成千上万的其他希腊人一样，他从家庭关系中学习糖果贸易，并于 1904 年开设了自己的糖果厨房——这是希腊拥有的糖果、冰淇淋和水果店之一，在 20 世纪早期的美国城镇中随处可见. 他和他的孩子们一直经营这家店，直到 1970 年代，作者和她的姐姐在 2004 年重新开业。对于贝克来说，Gus Flesor 是希腊移民糖果商的典范：他的商店是家庭奉献精神的象征，是移民通过努力工作获得成功和尊重的梦想。他的希腊身份，间歇性地成为本土主义威胁的目标，更经常打开技能、贸易和忠诚的亲属网络。贝克首先回顾了希腊历史。她对青铜时代的回顾并非绝对必要，但她的叙述迅速推进并阐明了始于 1890 年代的希腊移民的政治和经济原因。贝克将希腊人置于 20 世纪之交抵达的其他欧洲移民中：绝大多数是男性临时工，他们寻找钱来建立自己的地位或为姐妹们买嫁妆。尽管希腊移民人数相对较少，但贝克认为，作为南欧人，他们感到美国化的压力，特别是考虑到优生学不赞成将他们视为“劣等种族”。然而，希腊人也受益于古希腊更广泛的文化理想化，这是美国希腊协会利用的协会。简·亚当斯欢迎居住在赫尔豪斯附近的希腊移民，格蕾丝·阿博特研究了他们，亚当斯协助组织者，如乔治亚·比齐斯·普利（Georgia Bitzis Pooley），一位受过教育的希腊妇女，她创建了一个由希腊妇女和苏格拉底组成的 Philoptochos（“穷人之友”）协会女子学校（67-68 岁）。