Poster for play "Meet the Cartozians"

Susan Pourfar on the Cultural Resonance ‘Meet the Cartozians’

We speak with actress Susan Pourfar of Meet the Cartozians, currently playing at New York City’s Second Stage Theater until December 14.

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‘Meet the Cartozians’ is an Incisive Love Letter to the Armenian American Experience

In the 1925 Oregon District Court case, United States v. Cartozian, Tatos Cartozian and his family argued that they, and by extension all Armenians in America, should be considered “white,” driven by the purpose to gain citizenship, per the Founding Fathers’ conception of only white men being full citizens with rights.

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