They tend to represent the Armenian diasporic story in toto as one of violent persecution, genocide, and rehabilitation within a white American immigrant sphere, with the purpose of projecting and promoting a fundamentally recognizable story about diaspora integration and accomplishment. These memorials, which represent a considerable investment of time, energy, and money on the part of diasporic Armenian communities across the continent, followed quite deliberately on the pattern and rhetoric of the public Jewish American memorialization of the Holocaust that began in the 1970s. Nearly all were built after 1980, with a significant majority appearing only after 2000. The Armenian National Institute lists forty-five Armenian genocide memorials in the United States and five more in Canada.
Memorialization, assimilation, Armenian genocide, memorials, Armenia, Armenian National Institute, diaspora, Armenian diaspora, United States, Canada, Holocaust, Middle Eastern diaspora Abstract
