Կալիֆորնիայի հայ պարբերական մամուլը 1900-1930ականներին
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2014
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This is a study of the beginnings and the early-stage activities of the Armenian Press in California during the first three decades of the 20ᵗʰ century. The author highlights some differences between the early Armenian Press of the East Coast and that of the West Coast. She divides the early California Armenian Press into three groups: a) politically affiliated, b) religious and c) independent (national, social, literary, satirical, etc.).
The author notes that the California Armenian press underwent a significant change in the post-WWI period, as the number of newspapers more than doubled from 5 newspapers in Fresno before 1915, to more than twenty during the 1915 to 1930 period. The author explains this sharp increase by the fact that after the Genocide things looked different and the Armenian migrant workers in the US started constructing a community life, as the hope of returning to the parental home decreased. Besides, migrants started to get involved in American life and integrate into American society and milieu to avoid exclusion.
Integration, however, led to a preference for English papers at the expense of Armenian newspapers in the early 1930s. In certain cases Armenian newspapers started including articles and full pages in English.
Nonetheless, throughout the first three decades of its existence, the Armenian press played a basic role in shaping the social, political and national thought of the migrant Armenians. Besides, it promoted an Armenian environment and, in the long run, it became a source for the study of the history of the Armenians of California.
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Եսայեան, Յ., «Կալիֆորնիայի հայ պարբերական մամուլը 1900-1930ականներին», «Հայկզեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2014, Պէյրութ, էջ 433-450