Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Assimilation and Identity; 2: Church and Politics; 3: The Armenian-American Community; 4: The Debate over Language; 5: Sources of Identity; 6: Conclusions: Intermarriage, Symbolic Armenianness

About the Author

Anny Bakalian is the associate director of the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the co-author of Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond.

Reviews

-Armenian churches and schools provide community centers for most Armenian Americans. Thus, it is not surprising that most studies focus on these institutions and regions. Balakian (College of Notre Dame, MD) conducted her dissertation research on Armenian Americans more broadly, to cover responses of Armenian Americans to social issues of family, wealth and status, ethnic identity, politics, and language, in addition to interpreting the community-building functions of church and school... [E]stablishes a solid foundation for wider consideration of Armenian Americans as a connected ethnic group. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty.- --S. J. Bronner, Choice

"Armenian churches and schools provide community centers for most Armenian Americans. Thus, it is not surprising that most studies focus on these institutions and regions. Balakian (College of Notre Dame, MD) conducted her dissertation research on Armenian Americans more broadly, to cover responses of Armenian Americans to social issues of family, wealth and status, ethnic identity, politics, and language, in addition to interpreting the community-building functions of church and school... [E]stablishes a solid foundation for wider consideration of Armenian Americans as a connected ethnic group. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --S. J. Bronner, Choice

"Armenian churches and schools provide community centers for most Armenian Americans. Thus, it is not surprising that most studies focus on these institutions and regions. Balakian (College of Notre Dame, MD) conducted her dissertation research on Armenian Americans more broadly, to cover responses of Armenian Americans to social issues of family, wealth and status, ethnic identity, politics, and language, in addition to interpreting the community-building functions of church and school... [E]stablishes a solid foundation for wider consideration of Armenian Americans as a connected ethnic group. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty." --S. J. Bronner, Choice