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The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
Thousands of documents from German and Austrian archives provide a horrifying picture of how Europe's nomadic Gypsies were ostracized, abused, and branded by the Nazis in the quest for racial purity. 20 halftones.
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The Return of the King's Ranger
The war for American freedom is over, and the British have gone back to England. Not knowing what has become of his family since he was forced into the Continental Army nine years earlier, Myles Cunningham wants to go home as well. He returns to the Mohawk Valley with the understanding that he is believed to have been shot for deserting—fiction that might be made real if anyone recognizes him as the son of a Tory and a King's Ranger. Everything is wonderful in the growing community along the Mohawk River, except Nora Reid is still alone. With her brother happily settled and both her younger sisters starting families of their own, Nora feels the weight of her twenty-four years. A long walk leads her to the overgrown rubble of the Cunningham homestead where a bearded stranger begins to awaken feelings she'd lost hope of ever experiencing. With secrets abounding—including whether Myles even cares for her—Nora must determine what she is ready to give up and how far she will go to secure his affections. She begins to break through his defenses, but Myles can't risk staying. Not if he loves her.
Europe and the Roma
‘A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. ... nothing short of astounding’ Literary Review This remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their initial arrival in the late Middle Ages to the present day. To Europeans, the Roma appeared to be in complete contradiction with their own culture, because of their mysterious origins, unknown language and way of life. As representatives of an oral culture, for centuries the Roma have left virtually no written records of their own. Their history has been conveyed to us almost exclusively through the distorted images that European cultures p...
Cultural Politics of Ethnicity
This book maps out the history of Czechoslovak linguistic and social practices directed at Roma during the communist period. It explains how contemporary Czech society has come to understand the Romani population in terms of inherited social, medical and juridical ideas. Rather than focusing on the Roma people as an object of analysis, the book problematizes assumed notions of “Gypsiness” and “Czechness” in mainstream society by highlighting the role of different socialist discourses in constructing images of Roma as socially deviant and abnormal. By uncovering the lines of continuity in the intersections of ethnic discrimination, social deviance and citizenship from the 1950s to the...
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Der Völkermord an den Sinti und Roma und die Bundesrepublik
Die Studie untersucht die diskursiven Kämpfe um die Anerkennung des NS-Völkermords an Sinti und Roma in der Bundesrepublik bis 1990. Dabei wird unter Anerkennung zweierlei verstanden: die Akzeptanz der Verbände der Sinti und Roma als legitime Gesprächspartner der Bundesregierung sowie die Bewertung der „NS-Zigeunerverfolgung‟ als „rassisch‟ motiviertes Verbrechen in Politik und Wissenschaft. Auf der Grundlage umfassenden Quellenmaterials von Bundesbehörden und politischen wie zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren entsteht eine Diskursgeschichte dieses langwierigen Anerkennungsprozesses. Sie zeigt, dass bis tief in die 1960er Jahre hinein ein durch und durch rassistisches Bild der nationalsozialistischen Politik gegen Sinti und Roma vorherrschte. Dieser Denkstil, der von traditionellen Vorurteilen über „Zigeunerkriminalität‟ geprägt war, geriet in den 1970er Jahren mit der Rezeption von internationalen Forschungsarbeiten immer stärker unter Druck. Doch erst in den 1980er Jahren begann mit der Anerkennung der Sinti und Roma als Gesprächspartner durch Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt auch die Erforschung des NS-Massenverbrechens.
