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Informationen zum Autor Martha Aladjem Bloomfield gives workshops on oral histories and marginalized peoples to organizations, libraries, and schools. She adapts her programs to all ages and venues to inspire people to discover their own and others' stories through their voices, artifacts, historical documents, and family photographs. She is a member of the Michigan Humanities Council Arts and Humanities Touring Directory. Her earlier books include The Sweetness of Freedom: Stories of Immigrants (with Stephen Garr Ostrander), My Eyes Feel They Need to Cry: Stories from the Formerly Homeless , and Hmong Americans in Michigan. Klappentext This groundbreaking book relates the oral histories of Romanies in the United States, and introduces the stories of those who came from India hundreds of years ago and traveled to Europe, Latin America, the United States and, eventually, Michigan. It focuses on the Hungarian Slovak Romanies originally from Delray as well as others from outlying areas in and near Michigan. It provides a different voice from the stereotypical, bigoted articles or "racial profiling" from Michigan newspapers in the late nineteenth century through today. Romanies in Michigan introduces the Romanies' diverse, rich, resilient history in Michigan, based on oral histories, newspaper articles, legal documents, and other research.
