The Armenian Americans

Author : Anny Bakalian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351531153

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Armenian-Americans by Anny Bakalian Pdf

Assimilation has been a contentious issues for most immigrant groups in the United States. The host society is assumed to lire immigrants and their descendants away from their ancestral heritage. Yet, in their quest for a "better" life, few immigrants intentionally forsake heir ethnic identity; most try to hold onto their culture by transplanting their traditional institutions and recreating new communities in America. Armenian-Americans are no exception. Armenian-Americans have been generally overlooked by census enumerators, survey analysts, and social scientists because of their small numbers and relative dispersion throughout the United States. They remain a little-studied group that has been called a "hidden minority." Armenian Americans fills this significant gap. Based on the results of an extensive mail questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and participant observation of communal gatherings, this book analyzed the individual and collective struggles of Armenian-Americans to perpetuate their Armenian legacy while actively seeking new pathways to the American Dream. This volume shows how men and women of Armenian descent become distanced from their ethnic origins with the passing of generations. Yet assimilation and maintenance of ethnic identity go hand-in-hand. The ascribed, unconscious, compulsive Armenianness of the immigrant generation is transformed into a voluntary, rational, situational Armenianness. The generational change is from being Armenian to feeling Armenian. The Armenian-American community has grown and prospered in this century. Greater tolerance of ethnic differences in the host society, the remarkable social mobility of many Armenian-Americans and the influx of large numbers of new immigrants from the Middle East and Soviet bloc in recent decades have contributed to this development. The future of this community, however, remains precarious as it strives to adjust to the ever changing social, economic, and political conditions affec

Author : David Waldstreicher
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0877548625

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The Armenian Americans by David Waldstreicher Pdf

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Armenians, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

Author : Anny P. Bakalian
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1412842271

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Armenian Americans by Anny P. Bakalian Pdf

Assimilation has been a contentious issues for most immigrant groups in the United States. The host society is assumed to lire immigrants and their descendants away from their ancestral heritage. Yet, in their quest for a "better" life, few immigrants intentionally forsake heir ethnic identity; most try to hold onto their culture by transplanting their traditional institutions and recreating new communities in America. Armenian-Americans are no exception. Armenian-Americans have been generally overlooked by census enumerators, survey analysts, and social scientists because of their small numbers and relative dispersion throughout the United States. They remain a little-studied group that has been called a "hidden minority." Armenian Americans fills this significant gap. Based on the results of an extensive mail questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and participant observation of communal gatherings, this book analyzed the individual and collective struggles of Armenian-Americans to perpetuate their Armenian legacy while actively seeking new pathways to the American Dream. This volume shows how men and women of Armenian descent become distanced from their ethnic origins with the passing of generations. Yet assimilation and maintenance of ethnic identity go hand-in-hand. The ascribed, unconscious, compulsive Armenianness of the immigrant generation is transformed into a voluntary, rational, situational Armenianness. The generational change is from being Armenian to feeling Armenian. The Armenian-American community has grown and prospered in this century. Greater tolerance of ethnic differences in the host society, the remarkable social mobility of many Armenian-Americans and the influx of large numbers of new immigrants from the Middle East and Soviet bloc in recent decades have contributed to this development. The future of this community, however, remains precarious as it strives to adjust to the ever changing social, economic, and political conditions affecting Armenians in the United States; the diaspora; and the new republic of Armenia. Armenian-Americans will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and social historians, and of course to people of Armenian ancestry.

Author : Arra S. Avakian
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Armenian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39076002683410

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The Armenians in America by Arra S. Avakian Pdf

Discusses the history of the Armenian people and the numerous contributions made by Armenian immigrants and their descendants to the history and culture of the United States.

Author : David Gutman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474445269

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Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915 by David Gutman Pdf

This book tells the story of Armenian migration to North America in the late Ottoman period, and Istanbul's efforts to prevent it. It shows how, just as in the present, migrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were forced to travel through clandestine smuggling networks, frustrating the enforcement of the ban on migration. Further, migrants who attempted to return home from sojourns in North America risked debarment at the border and deportation, while the return of migrants who had naturalized as US citizens generated friction between the United States and Ottoman governments. The author sheds light on the relationship between the imperial state and its Armenian populations in the decades leading up to the Armenian genocide. He also places the Ottoman Empire squarely in the middle of global debates on migration, border control and restriction in this period, adding to our understanding of the global historical origins of contemporary immigration politics and other issues of relevance today in the Middle East region, such borders and frontiers, migrants and refugees, and ethno-religious minorities.

Author : Jay Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139450188

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America and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by Jay Winter Pdf

Before Rwanda and Bosnia, and before the Holocaust, the first genocide of the twentieth century happened in Turkish Armenia in 1915, when approximately one million people were killed. This volume is an account of the American response to this atrocity. The first part sets up the framework for understanding the genocide: Sir Martin Gilbert, Vahakn Dadrian and Jay Winter provide an analytical setting for nine scholarly essays examining how Americans learned of this catastrophe and how they tried to help its victims. Knowledge and compassion, though, were not enough to stop the killings. A terrible precedent was born in 1915, one which has come to haunt the United States and other Western countries throughout the twentieth century and beyond. To read the essays in this volume is chastening: the dilemmas Americans faced when confronting evil on an unprecedented scale are not very different from the dilemmas we face today.

Author : Arlene Voski Avakian
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781558619364

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Lion Woman's Legacy by Arlene Voski Avakian Pdf

A “vivid and engrossing” narrative of one woman’s journey from shame and internal conflict to becoming a liberated, confident, and proud lesbian (Kirkus Reviews). The descendant of survivors of the Armenian genocide, Arlene Avakian was raised in America where she could live free. But even with that freedom, she found herself a prisoner of both her family and society, denying her heritage along with her true sexuality. After marriage and motherhood, Arlene found herself exploring the growing women’s lib movement of the 1970s, coming to embrace the strength of her grandmother—known as the Lion Woman—and realizing her full potential and personhood. Inspired by her passionate feminism and strengthened by a loving lesbian relationship, Avakian recollects and re-examines her personal history and the story of her courageous grandmother, revealing a legacy of radical politics, fierce independence, and a powerful affirmation of ethnic identity in this “extremely readable and often painfully honest book” (Library Journal).

Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0813922674

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"Starving Armenians" by Merrill D. Peterson Pdf

Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenians, a minority in the Ottoman Empire, died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian Desert. Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union.

Author : Matthew Ari Jendian
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132228110

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Becoming American, Remaining Ethnic by Matthew Ari Jendian Pdf

Jendian provides a snapshot of the oldest Armenian community in the western United States. His work explores the processes of assimilation and ethnicity across four generations and examines forms of ethnic identity and intermarriage. He examines four subprocesses of assimilation[¬"cultural, structural, marital, and identificational[¬"for patterns of change ( assimilation) and persistence ( ethnicity). Findings demonstrate the co-existence of assimilation and ethnicity. He offers assimilation and the retention of ethnicity as two, somewhat independent, processes. Assimilation is not a unilinear or zero-sum phenomenon, but rather multidimensional and multidirectional. Future research must understand the forms ethnicity takes for different generations of different groups while examining patterns of change and persistence for the fourth generation and beyond.

Author : Nishan Parlakian
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231508506

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Contemporary Armenian American Drama by Nishan Parlakian Pdf

Although ancestral voices have inspired many Armenian American writers of poetry and fiction in the twentieth century, their expression through drama has been limited. The first of its kind, this anthology is a collection of plays by notable Armenian Americans. Written in English largely by artists of Armenian extraction during the latter part of the twentieth century, the plays reflect the outrage of the Armenian Genocide, the forced transplantation that created the Armenian Diaspora, and the desire to maintain the newly established democratic homeland. Including a range of authors from William Saroyan to more contemporary voices, this anthology represents the writers that have stimulated cutting-edge contemporary drama from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The collection includes farce, comedy, tragicomedy, and tragedy (and sometimes blends of all of these). The plays reflect the shared experiences of Armenian family life in Armenia, Turkey, and America. The themes include the joy of freedom to practice their faith and ethnic customs, the turmoil of acculturation, and the feared loss of identity through assimilation. The editor has provided headnotes for each play and an extensive introduction tracing the history of Armenian American drama in the United States.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Armenian Americans
ISBN : 0382445104

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Armenian Americans by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. Payaslian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230608580

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The History of Armenia by S. Payaslian Pdf

There is a great deal of interest in the history of Armenia since its renewed independence in the 1990s and the ongoing debate about the genocide - an interest that informs the strong desire of a new generation of Armenian Americans to learn more about their heritage and has led to greater solidarity in the community. By integrating themes such as war, geopolitics, and great leaders, with the less familiar cultural themes and personal stories, this book will appeal to general readers and travellers interested in the region.

Author : David Kherdian
Publisher : Heyday
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015074053367

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Forgotten Bread by David Kherdian Pdf

A collection of writings by seventeen first-generation Armenian American authors, including Michael J. Arlen, Richard Hagopian, Leon Surmelian, and Emmanuel P. Varandyan, accompanied by biographical essays.

Author : Robert Mirak
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed for the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University by Harvard University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39076002684889

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Torn Between Two Lands by Robert Mirak Pdf

Author : James H. Tashjian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Armenian Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015050054629

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The Armenian American in World War II. by James H. Tashjian Pdf