Becoming White
Contested History, Armenian American Women, and Racialized Bodies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4898883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janice Dzovinar Okoomian (John Brown University, corresponding author), J Okoomian |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 213-237 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-755X • E-ISSN: 1946-3170 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3250644 |
| OpenAlex | W1987895468 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This essay traces the historical process by which Armenians became legally white in the United States, demonstrating how arguments for Armenian whiteness were used as part of a larger strategy to exclude other Asian immigrants from nationalization in the early twentieth century. For late twentieth-century Armenian Americans, the conditions of racial whiteness include the erasure of Armenian history and the assimilation of Armenian bodies into European gender norms. Through a reading of Carol Edgarian’s Rise, the Euphrates, the essay argues for an Armenian American female subject that resists race and gender assimilation as well as historical erasure
Ancient history · Armenian · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |