“For some context, in our history and around the globe, every time Armenians have been targeted, they come for our churches and our schools,” Bastian tweeted. And why were Armenians pursued by the state so aggressively in these legal cases? IN 2017, the digital platform Ajam Media Collective published an essay titled “How Armenian-Americans Became ‘White’: A Brief History,” by Aram Ghoogasian. Both the San Francisco Police and Fire departments are investigating the fire, according to church officials. AG: That’s part of the problem with how we talk about Armenian Americans. It's shape and girth were unmistakeable. But if you ask an Armenian-American from the Central Valley to tell you what their favorite foods are, you will instantly know how deep and strong their roots run. In Hollywood films, there’s a reason why Armenians universally anticipate the credits to look for Armenian names. For the next step, you'll be taken to a website to complete the donation and enter your billing information. Subscribe to LARB's FREE Weekly Newsletter: By submitting this form, you are granting: Los Angeles Review of Books, 6671 Sunset Blvd., Ste. But that shouldn’t be taken as evidence that Armenians writ large reap the benefits of whiteness today. “So here is another message to the perpetrators of this cowardly act, we will not be terrorized, bullied or intimidated,” Bastian wrote.
When someone decides your identity is too complicated, they stop listening. The essay circulated widely, to astonishing misreadings. Sophia Armen is a writer and organizer, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. This is true for most diasporic communities of the region.

I've got some of my own.". We weren’t the only ones, there were cases like Dow v. United States arguing for naturalization through whiteness, United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, and others. In that context, Armenian culture has been systematically subjected to Orientalization. Dancer Just Dancing: On Literature and Leisure in 2020, Monumental Ignorance: How Donald Trump Misuses Imagery, Days of the Dead: Frozen Bodies, Real Martyrs, and the Quest for Immortality in the City of Angels, Valley View: An Armenian Diasporic Account in Lieu of a Glendale Biennial Review, Andouni: The Shared and Unshared Songs of Armenian Exile, Promises, Promises: The Strange History of Film and the Armenian Genocide, Sidelights: Searching for the Young Edward Hopper, Our Overeducated Moment: On Andrew Martin’s “Cool for America”, Beyond Jermag Yev Sev: A Roundtable on Armenian American Identity. SA: The US is a nation not only born of genocidal violence against Black and Indigenous people, but one where that violence continues today.
Social, personal, and collective identity — which are always in flux — are more resilient than language retention, which may contribute to these identities but is not necessarily constitutive of them. SA: [The writer] Monte Melkonian, who is considered a national hero for many Armenians, discusses the term jermag chart in his early political writings.


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