Danger! Educated Gypsy Selected Essays
by Hancock, Ian; Karanth, DileepFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-05-01
Publisher(s): University Of Hertfordshire Press
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Summary
Written by Gypsy scholar Ian Hancock, this collection of his selected writings examines Romani history, culture, language, and politics. A compendium of Hancock's views of the Romani experience, this account covers topics ranging from responses to the Romani Holocaust and Romani religion to anti-Gypsy racism and oppression. Giving a voice to an often misunderstood community, this record includes personal stories, persuasive research, heartfelt criticisms, and sincere advice. Informative and dynamic, this volume strives to debunk the myths and prejudices surrounding the Roma and to examine how Romani identity has been formed in the course of their long history.
Author Biography
Ian Hancock is a linguist; Romani scholar; political advocate; and an English, linguistics, and Asian studies professor at the University of Texas–Austin. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Bill Clinton. He is the author of The Pariah Syndrome and We Are the Romani People. He lives in Austin, Texas. Dileep Karanth is a physics lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside in Kenosha. He lives in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Table of Contents
| About the Editor | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Testimonials | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Djabravoki | p. 3 |
| Family tales | p. 5 |
| Talking back | p. 38 |
| Introduction: History and culture | p. 45 |
| The Hungarian student Vályi István and the Indian connection of Romani | p. 47 |
| On Romani origins and identity | p. 54 |
| Gypsies, gadze, languages and labels | p. 95 |
| Romani religion | p. 105 |
| Introduction: Language standardisation and education | p. 115 |
| The standardisation of the Romani language: an overview and some recommendations | p. 117 |
| The schooling of Romani Americans: an overview | p. 128 |
| Introduction: Image | p. 147 |
| Duty and beauty, possession and truth: the claim of lexical impoverishment as control | p. 150 |
| George Borrow's Romani | p. 160 |
| The concocters: creating fake Romani culture | p. 177 |
| Gypsy Mafia, Romani saints: the racial profiling of Romani Americans | p. 195 |
| The 'gypsy' stereotype and the sexualisation of Romani women | p. 212 |
| Introduction: Holocaust, racism and politics | p. 223 |
| Responses to the Porrajmos (the Romani Holocaust) | p. 226 |
| The consequences of anti-Gypsy racism in Europe | p. 264 |
| Our need for internal diplomatic skills | p. 273 |
| Endnotes | p. 281 |
| Bibliography | p. 287 |
| Index | p. 317 |
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