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
1 - Historical Comparisons: From Slavery to World War II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2020
- 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
To properly contextualize Roma rights and explore the parallels with civil rights, we must first trace the history of Romani peoples in CSEE, a history that stretches back over a millennium. Scholars have studied the origins of the Roma as well as their paths into CSEE for centuries. For nearly as long, this scholarship has objectified, exoticized, and marginalized its very subjects – in short, replicating society’s exclusion of the Roma. To highlight and avoid these perils, we begin this Chapter by surveying how Romani studies as a field has evolved to a juncture that now facilitates broader structural comparisons with other minority groups.
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- Roma Rights and Civil RightsA Transatlantic Comparison, pp. 19 - 37Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020