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[gmd]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

This sucks. Do I now have to provide for my own entertainment?

[gmd]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

Must be finals season. No ones postin' these days. I see the tumbleweeds. Life rolls on by. Heads fall and heads rise. Vigilantes I despise. The ignorant always demise. There needs to be some more ardor for life.

Finals? Don't all these kids know that this current age will end in 2012 and degrees may not matter in the next age?

[jgk3]

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Finals? Don't all these kids know that this current age will end in 2012 and degrees may not matter in the next age?

Yeah, but we need something to do and pretend to be important in the meantime.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Ankap - Ekek khorovats utelu yev oghi khmelu

The way I see it we are white when it comes to receiving benefits like affirmative action and small business, minority loans and then we are a minority when it comes to burdens.

For instance, up until the mid-1900s, Armenians had a hard time buying real property because of restrictive covenants in some cities in the U.S.

Another example, after 9/11, Armenians, the first practicing christians, were placed on the U.S. terror list. Somehow, we immediately became Islamic, muslim fascists.

Hmm, there is going to be a lecture on a topic covering among other things the above dichotomy relating to Armenians being whitewashed when it comes to race in America.

http://www.ArmenianCalendar.com/?showevent=2580

Whitewashed, “Whiteness” in American History, with a special focus on Middle-Easterners Email This EventPrint Event
Thursday, December 11, 2008 7:30 pm
Merdinian School: 13330 Riverside Dr. Sherman Oaks CA-South 91423 USA
Category: Lecture
Admission: Free/none
Contact: ARPA Institute Phone: (818)881-0010

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Abstract: Throughout American history, racial classifications have wielded exceptional influence. For example, until 1952, federal law provided naturalization rights only to individuals who were white or black, but nothing “in-between.” During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a wave of new immigration from non-Anglo-Saxon countries arrived on our shores. As a result, the American legal system was forced to confront the task of defining what or who constituted the white race for the purposes of naturalization. Litigation over the concept of whiteness resulted, yielding life-altering consequences. While the trials often grew senseless, with judges delving into the depths of antiquity, reconstructing history, and spouting rigid ideologies in order to justify their rulings, the reification of whiteness had a profound impact on shaping the immigrant experience in the United States.

Armenians played a central role in these cases. And the Armenian struggle for naturalization rights and ‘white’ recognition is critical to understanding the processes at play in the social construction of race. By drawing upon these cases, Tehranian’s talk assesses the historical and contemporary relevance of whiteness in American society, with a particular eye towards the war on terrorism and the debate over immigration, assimilation, and our national identity, especially after 9/11. Specifically, he discusses the peculiar problems of race that continue to plague us and how they affect Armenian and Middle-Eastern Americans. He also addresses the unusual Catch-22 facing Middle-Eastern Americans: Although considered white by law, and therefore ineligible for any policies benefiting minorities, they have faced rising degrees of discrimination over time—a fact highlighted by recent targeted immigration policies, racial profiling, a war on terrorism with a decided racialist bent, and growing rates of job discrimination and hate crime.

John Tehranian is a Professor of Law and Director of the Entertainment Law Program at Chapman University School of Law. He has previously served as Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, and as Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola Law School. A graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School, he is the author of numerous works on race, civil rights, and constitutional law. A frequent commentator on legal issues for the broadcast and print media, Tehranian has appeared on such television programs as ABC's Nightline and has been quoted as an expert on legal issues in such publications as The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Christian Science Monitor. He has also served as an expert witness in numerous intellectual property and civil rights infringement suits and is an experienced entertainment and intellectual property litigator, having represented prominent Hollywood, publishing, new media and technology clients at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge LLP.

Tehranian’s scholarship focuses on the interface between law and culture, with a particular focus on issues of intellectual property, entertainment and race. He is the author of the book Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Minority (New York University Press, 2008), an analysis of the social and legal construction of race and the malleable concept of whiteness through history, and the forthcoming book Infringement Nation (2010), an examination of copyright pervasiveness and reform in the digital age.

For information, please call Dr. Hagop Panossian at (818) 881-0010 or e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected].

[yerazhishda]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

Is LTP 'Middle-eastern' looking? Is Serj 'white'? I'm sick and tired of the 'Middle-eastern/Asian' vs. 'White' debate. It's pointless; Armenians represent all shades of the Caucausian race.

'Nuff said.

[yerazhishda]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

Ankap chvan@ kesh e hima. Our e crusader?! Vortegh g@ hartsnem!

[Anush]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

Also, anyone that would put a picture of them and their cousin in their skivvies, drenched, is pretty gay in my book.

I hope no one gets mad at me and posts yukkie pictures of me... LOL

[Anush]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

If you want to know what it's like to have no substantive purpose for anything and to show what sort of an empty carbon copy you really are, throw out the peace sign!






Actually, the number one reason to throw out the peace sign is because chicks like it (under age ones that is).

OMG I am never taking a picture with a peace sign up in it again... I am terrified now

[MrHyeSev]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

LOL AnushA26

[TomServo]

Re: Ankap - Vigilante is history!

Poor vigilante.