“Where Are You From? No, Where Are You Really From?”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor’s Note ix
4. Introduction 1
5. How Armenian Funeral Halva Helped My Family Find Home in America 5
6. Hava Nagila 9
7. “Where Are You From? No, Where Are You Really From?” 23
8. An Inter/Racial Love History 37
9. Language Lessons 55
10. A Good, Solid Name 63
11. My Armenia: On Imagining and Seeing 69
12. Inside the Walls: Reflections on Revolutionary Armenians 77
13. Going Home Again 105
14. Lost and Found 111
15. A Letter to My Great-Grandson 117
16. Open Wounds 127
17. Բառէրը—the Words 135
18. The Road to Belonging 145
19. The Story of My Body 165
20. Valley View: An Armenian Diasporic Account in Lieu of a Glendale Biennial Review 185
21. Perspectives on Artsakh from a Black Armenian Angeleno 197
22. We Are All Armenian 205
23. Acknowledgments 215
24. Reading List 217
25. Notes on the Contributors 221