"After the end of socialism in Hungary, rapid change in the economy and society increased feelings of antagonism toward the country's largest minority, the Roma (sometimes called Gypsies). One notable exception to this atmosphere of animosity can be found in a special Pentecosta…
Realizing Roma Rights investigates anti-Roma racism and documents a growing Roma-led political movement engaged in building a more inclusive and just Europe. The book brings to the forefront voices of leading and emerging Romani scholars, from established human rights experts to…
"This book compares the rights and social inclusion of two racialized minority groups: Roma in Central and Southeast Europe ("CSEE") and African Americans in the United States ("U.S."), primarily in the American South. We couch those attempts loosely in the frameworks of Roma ri…
As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with the patriarch's sons and nephews…
As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with the patriarch's sons and nephews…
This thesis, which moves between social and cultural history, explores rural life and reform in the period between the First and Second World Wars. It argues that responses to the social and economic crisis in the countryside were shaped by a desire to return to a mythical past …
This document examines compositions by Johann Strauss Jr., related by title or compositional circumstance to Hungarians or Gypsies, for the presence of the style hongrois, or Hungarian style—an exotic style used by Western composers throughout the nineteenth century. This study …
