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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
About the author
Diane Tong
Summary
This study sets out to tell stories of the persistence of the Roma in the face of savage atrocities and appalling living conditions, without patronising the Gypsies and their culture. Recurrent themes include: the historical oppression of the Gypsies; and the nature of Gypsy cultures.
