Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside an Armenian American Community of Los Angeles
Fittante, Daniel R. · 2018
Analyzes the emergence of 'ethnopolitical entrepreneurs' (novel political agents in evolving suburban immigrant spaces, or 'ethnoburbs') through a case study of the Armenian community of Glendale, California. Fittante argues that Glendale's Armenians, while possessing their own history and character, reflect dynamics also visible in other American suburban immigrant communities, and that these communities force scholars to rethink traditional assumptions about the settlement and political incorporation of newcomers. The dissertation reorients the scholarship on group political incorporation by unpacking the role these brokers play in mobilizing co-ethnic constituencies. Los Angeles Armenians naturalize at roughly twice the national rate, and in Glendale they form a demographic plurality approaching 40 percent.
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Fittante, Daniel R. 2018. Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside an Armenian American Community of Los Angeles. PhD dissertation, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair: Peter S. Cowe); eScholarship.
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The definitive academic study of how Armenians came to hold political power in Glendale; free full text.
UCLA dissertation (later revised as a Cornell University Press book); a substantive contribution to ethnoburb and political-incorporation literature.
Explains the machinery of our own political influence in Glendale: who brokers it, and how.
How Glendale became the most politically Armenian city in America.
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