Book contents
- Roma Rights and Civil Rights
- Roma Rights and Civil Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Historical Comparisons: From Slavery to World War II
- 2 Historical Comparisons: From the Cold War to Eastern Enlargement
- 3 Resistance and the Nation
- 4 Minority Protections and Conditionality
- 5 Minority Protections and Internal Governance
- 6 Filmic Representations
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2020
Book contents
- Roma Rights and Civil Rights
- Roma Rights and Civil Rights
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Historical Comparisons: From Slavery to World War II
- 2 Historical Comparisons: From the Cold War to Eastern Enlargement
- 3 Resistance and the Nation
- 4 Minority Protections and Conditionality
- 5 Minority Protections and Internal Governance
- 6 Filmic Representations
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We first presented this project at Duke Law School in 2015. At the time, Barack Obama was ending his second term as President, and the U.S. had grown accustomed to seeing a person coded as “black” holding the country’s highest political office. Obama’s presidency seemed to hearken the unequivocal acceptance of African Americans into the cultural imaginary.
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- Roma Rights and Civil RightsA Transatlantic Comparison, pp. 167 - 173Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020