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- Title
Vaka Brown: The Historicized Geography/Geographic History of an Immigrant.
- Authors
Arapoglou, Eleftheria
- Abstract
The article presents the geographic history of immigrant Demetra Vaca Brown in the U.S. It states that she was born in 1877 in the island of Prinkipo, off the Asia Minor coast and is the daughter of a Greek official who was working for the Sultanate. She has accordingly immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 17, as the governess of the children of the Ottoman government's appointed consul to the U.S., a man of Greek Descent. Before becoming fluent in English, she worked as a copy editor, writing in Greek, for the national daily Greek newspaper "Atlantis." Further information to the life and works of Demetra Vaca Brown is presented.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BROWN, Demetra Vaca; AUTHORS; COPY editors; GREEK Americans; ETHNOLOGY; MULTICULTURALISM; EMIGRATION &; immigration; SOCIOCULTURAL factors; RELOCATION
- Publication
Journal of Modern Hellenism, 2004, Issue 21/22, p83
- ISSN
0743-7749
- Publication type
Article