ABSTRACT
This chapter foregrounds a corpus of narratives that link the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution with the diaspora’s historical encounters with populations subjected to slavery and colonialism. The narratives demonstrate why populations such as Indigenous and Black people in the United States, or the First Nations of Australia, should play a significant role in how scholars and communities tell diaspora histories and imagine the future of Greek identities. My analysis probes the insights these narratives produce, identifies their interconnections, and reflects on the questions they raise. The aim is to identify how this bicentenary discourse recontextualizes diaspora as a history of encounters and relations with stigmatized others and via this lens initiates a civic-minded historiography of Greek identity in the diaspora.
