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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.
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Matthew A. Jendian is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the American Humanics Program at California State University, Fresno. He teaches courses on race/ethnicity, terrorism and genocide, social issues, public policy, and advocacy. He was honored in "Menk," an encyclopedia of biographies of prominent scholars of Armenian origins. This is his first book.
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