Armenian-Americans: From Being to Feeling American

By Bakalian and Anny Bakalian

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560000252
• ISBN13: 9781560000259
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.2"