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
5 - Minority Protections and Internal Governance
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
In the century after Reconstruction in the U.S., Jim Crow laws installed a caste system that tenaciously separated whites and “coloreds”; poll taxes, literacy tests, fraud, and intimidation suppressed the black vote; and peonage, chain gangs, and convict leasing conscripted African Americans and poor whites into hard labor. For Roma in Europe, the EU’s eastern enlargement failed to create genuine protections at the local and national levels.
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- Roma Rights and Civil RightsA Transatlantic Comparison, pp. 113 - 143Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020