| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 33.2

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Dan Georgakas. My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City. New York: Pella, 2006. Pp. 312. Illustrations. Paper, $17.00.

In My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City, labor historian Dan Georgakas weaves together an engaging and vivid tale of ethnic life on Detroit's east side during the city's industrial zenith—the "Golden Age" for immigrants (p. 41). Gracefully navigating through a multifarious landscape, the author guides us from his "life changing" visit to his father's native village of Sidirokastro to the coffee shops or "kafenia" (p. 52) that dominated Monroe, Beaubien, and St. Aubin streets in Greektown's heartland. From his father's pub, the Sportsman's Bar on Jefferson Avenue, to the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church on Beniteau that was the spiritual and cultural center of the community, Georgakas reveals how Old World values dominated the Greek American mindset and how neighborhood structures served as a bastion against change during a time of insecure prosperity.

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