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Beschreibung
The extensive research literature on race has paid little attention to Armenians. Between the two world wars, they had to prove that they were "free white persons" to ensure their naturalization in the United States, while in Nazi Germany they needed to document that they were stakeholders of the "Aryan race" to safeguard their existence. Vartan Matiossian's book is the first comprehensive account of a mostly untold story of dehumanization and racism in Europe and America that enhanced the racial and moral profiling of Armenians as undesirables. The book frames this development within the context of the debates on whiteness and immigration in the United States culminating in the Immigration Act of 1924 and the xenophobic discourse in Germany before and during Nazism likening Armenians to Jews.
The extensive research literature on race has paid little attention to Armenians. Between the two world wars, they had to prove that they were "free white persons" to ensure their naturalization in the United States, while in Nazi Germany they needed to document that they were stakeholders of the "Aryan race" to safeguard their existence. Vartan Matiossian's book is the first comprehensive account of a mostly untold story of dehumanization and racism in Europe and America that enhanced the racial and moral profiling of Armenians as undesirables. The book frames this development within the context of the debates on whiteness and immigration in the United States culminating in the Immigration Act of 1924 and the xenophobic discourse in Germany before and during Nazism likening Armenians to Jews.
Über den Autor
Vartan Matiossian is a historian and literary scholar living in the United States. He received his PhD from the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences, Armenia.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Geschichte, Kunst, Musik
Jahrhundert: 20. Jahrhundert
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: XXXVIII
341 S.
ISBN-13: 9783506797735
ISBN-10: 3506797735
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Matiossian, Vartan
Hersteller: Brill | Schöningh
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Maße: 241 x 160 x 32 mm
Von/Mit: Vartan Matiossian
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.2025
Gewicht: 0,802 kg
Artikel-ID: 133650757