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This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes in the readings include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies including contemporary xenophobia and violence; the nonstatic, heterogeneous nature of Gypsy cultures; the persistence of racist stereotypes; and personal and institutional Gypsy/non-Gypsy relationships. Nearly all of the classic essays updated for this volume tell stories of the persistance of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions.
List of contents
Introduction * Gypsy Studies , Researching Finnish Gypsies: Advice from a Gypsy, Saga Weckman * Politics, Social Change, History , Looking at Roma: The Case of Czechoslovakia, Will Guy * Romania's Hidden Victims, Dan Pavel * Police Perception of Gypsies in Finland, Martti Grsnfors * Germans and Gypsies, Gabrielle Tyrnauer * Language Duty and Beauty, Possession and Truth: Lexical Impoverishment as Control, Ian Hancock * Educational Perspectives, Pictures of Ourselves, Cathy Kiddle * Using the Gypsies' Own Language: Two Contrasting Approaches in Hungarian Schools, Thomas Acton * Roma in the Hungarian Educational System, Nidhi Trehan * Performing Arts Roma in the Soviet Union and the Moscow Teatr Romen, Alaina Lemon * Analysis of an Interethnic Event in Granada, Spain, Bertha B. Quintana * Andalusian, Gypsy, and Class Identity in the Contemporary Flamenco Complex, Peter Manuel * Social Organization , American Roma and the Ideology of Defilement, Carol Miller * Sex Dichotomy Among the American Kalderas Gypsies, Rena M. Cotten (Gropper) * Economic Stratification and Interaction: Roma, and Ethnic Jati in East Slovakia, Milena Hÿbschmannov * Images of Gypsies Black/Quadroon/Gypsy: Women in the Art of George Fuller, Sarah Burns * Representation of Gypsies in Dutch Encyclopedias and their Sources (1724-1984), Wim Willems and Leo Lucassen * Johnny Faa and Black Jack Davy: Cultural Values and Change in Scots and American Balladry, Christine A. Cartwright
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Diane Tong
Summary
This book of interdisciplinary readings on Gypsies is sensitive to the Romani point of view and avoids exoticizing or patronizing the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes in the readings include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies including contemporary xenophobia and violence; the nonstatic, heterogeneous nature of Gypsy cultures; the persistence of racist stereotypes; and personal and institutional Gypsy/non-Gypsy relationships. Nearly all of the classic essays updated for this volume tell stories of the persistance of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions.
