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Becoming American, remaining ethnic : the case of Armenian-Americans in central California / Matthew A. Jendian.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jendian, Matthew A. (Matthew Ari), 1968-
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armenian Americans--Cultural assimilation--California--Fresno County.
- Armenian Americans.
- Armenian Americans--California--Fresno County--Ethnic identity.
- Armenian Americans--California--Fresno County--Statistics.
- Social surveys--California--Fresno County.
- Social surveys.
- Ethnicity--California--Fresno County.
- Ethnicity.
- Interethnic marriage--California--Fresno County.
- Interethnic marriage.
- Fresno County (Calif.)--Ethnic relations.
- Fresno County (Calif.).
- Fresno County (Calif.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Assimilation and ethnicity
- Uncovering ethnicity
- Armenian history and culture
- Armenians in central California
- Becoming American, remaining Armenian
- Ethnic identity
- Intermarriage
- Ethnicity in later generations
- Conclusions and implications.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59332-365-4
- OCLC:
- 300325281
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