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Romanies in Michigan

Author : Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953799
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Romanies in Michigan written by Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book relates the oral histories of Romanies in the United States. It focuses on the Hungarian-Slovak Romani musical community originally from Delray, Michigan, as well as others from outlying areas in and near Michigan. Originally Romanies came from India and hundreds of years ago traveled to Europe, Latin America, the United States, and, eventually, Michigan. Their stories provide a different voice from the stereotypical, bigoted newspaper articles from Michigan newspapers in the late nineteenth century through today that reflect law enforcement agencies’ prejudices or “racial profiling.” Romanies in Michigan introduces their diverse, rich, resilient history in Michigan, based on oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, legal documents, and other research. The book explores traditional modes of travel; Romanies’ identity, history, perspective, and challenges with non-Romanies; their feelings as a minority group; and their self-efficacy, respect, and pride in their culture and work.

Romani Communities and Transformative Change

Author : Ryder, Andrew
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447357507
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Romani Communities and Transformative Change written by Ryder, Andrew and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. Drawing on Roma community voices and expert research, this book provides a powerful tool to challenge conventional discourses and analyses on Romani identity, poverty and exclusion. Through the transformative vehicle of a ‘Social Europe’, this edited collection presents new concepts and strategies for framing social justice for Romani communities across Europe. The vast majority of Roma experience high levels of exclusion from the labour market and from social networks in society. This book maps out how the implementation of a new ‘Social Europe’ can offer innovative solutions to these intransigent dilemmas. This insightful and accessible text is vital reading for the policymaker, practitioner, academic and activist.

Bury Me Standing

Author : Isabel Fonseca
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761045
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Bury Me Standing written by Isabel Fonseca and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. Fabled, feared, romanticized, and reviled, the Gypsies—or Roma—are among the least understood people on earth. Their culture remains largely obscure, but in Isabel Fonseca they have found an eloquent witness. In Bury Me Standing, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals—the poet, the politician, the child prostitute—Fonseca offers sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. She traces their exodus out of India 1,000 years ago and their astonishing history of persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis; forcibly assimilated by the communist regimes; evicted from their settlements in Eastern Europe, and most recently, in Western Europe as well. Whether as handy scapegoats or figments of the romantic imagination, the Gypsies have always been with us—but never before have they been brought so vividly to life. Includes fifty black and white photos.

Hmong Americans in Michigan

Author : Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611861198
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Hmong Americans in Michigan written by Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hmong people, originating from the mountainous regions of China, Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos, are unique among American immigrants because of their extraordinary history of migration; loyalty to one another; prolonged abuse, trauma, and suffering at the hands of those who dominated them; profound loss; and independence, as well as their amazing capacity to adapt and remain resilient over centuries. This introduction to their experience in Michigan discusses Hmong American history, culture, and more specifically how they left homelands filled with brutality and warfare to come to the United States since the mid-1970s. More than five thousand Hmong Americans live in Michigan, and many of them have faced numerous challenges as they have settled in the Midwest. How did these brave and innovative people adapt to strange new lives thousands of miles away from their homelands? How have they preserved their past through time and place, advanced their goals, and cultivated plans for their children and education? What are their lives like in the diaspora? As this book documents via personal interviews and extensive research, despite the tremendous losses they have suffered for many years, the Hmong people in Michigan continue to demonstrate courage and profound resilience.

New Soviet Gypsies

Author : Brigid O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442665874
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book New Soviet Gypsies written by Brigid O'Keeffe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As perceived icons of indifferent marginality, disorder, indolence, and parasitism, “Gypsies” threatened the Bolsheviks’ ideal of New Soviet Men and Women. The early Soviet state feared that its Romani population suffered from an extraordinary and potentially insurmountable cultural “backwardness,” and sought to sovietize Roma through a range of nation-building projects. Yet as Brigid O’Keeffe shows in this book, Roma actively engaged with Bolshevik nationality policies, thereby assimilating Soviet culture, social customs, and economic relations. Roma proved the primary agents in the refashioning of so-called “backwards Gypsies” into conscious Soviet citizens. New Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives in the early Soviet Union. O’Keeffe illustrates how Roma mobilized and performed “Gypsiness” as a means of advancing themselves socially, culturally, and economically as Soviet citizens. Exploring the intersection between nationality, performance, and self-fashioning, O’Keeffe shows that Roma not only defy easy typecasting, but also deserve study as agents of history.

We are the Romani People

Author : Ian F. Hancock
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902806198
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book We are the Romani People written by Ian F. Hancock and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society.

Romano Lavo-lil: Word Book of the Romany

Author : George Borrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Romano Lavo-lil: Word Book of the Romany written by George Borrow and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnic Identities in Dynamic Perspective

Author : Gypsy Lore Society. Annual Meeting
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Identities in Dynamic Perspective written by Gypsy Lore Society. Annual Meeting and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between Two Fires

Author : Alaina Lemon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082238132X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Between Two Fires written by Alaina Lemon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds—in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor these two, only seemingly opposed, views of “Gypsies,” exalting their songs on stage but scorning them on the streets as liars and cheats. Alaina Lemon’s Between Two Fires examines how Roma themselves have negotiated these dual images in everyday interactions and in stage performances. Lemon’s ethnographic study is based on extensive fieldwork in 1990s Russia and focuses on Moscow Romani Theater actors as well as Romani traders and metalworkers. Drawing from interviews with Roma and Russians, observations of performances, and conversations, as well as archives, literary texts, and media, Lemon analyzes the role of theatricality and theatrical tropes in Romani life and the everyday linguistics of social relations and of memory. Historically, the way Romani stage performance has been culturally framed and positioned in Russia has served to typecast Gypsies as “natural” performers, she explains. Thus, while theatrical and musical performance may at times empower Roma, more often it has reinforced and rationalized racial and social stereotypes, excluding them from many Soviet and Russian economic and political arenas. Performance, therefore, defines what it means to be Romani in Russia differently than it does elsewhere, Lemon shows. Considering formal details of language as well as broader cultural and social structures, she also discusses how racial categories relate to post-Soviet economic changes, how gender categories and Euro-Soviet notions of civility are connected, and how ontological distinctions between “stage art” and “real life” contribute to the making of social types. This complex study thus serves as a corrective to romantic views of Roma as detached from political forces.

Danger! Educated Gypsy

Author : Ian Hancock
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 9781902806990
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Danger! Educated Gypsy written by Ian Hancock and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely collection of Ian Hancock's selected writings. His impact upon Romani Studies has been truly remarkable, both in terms of his contributions to linguistics and Gypsy historiography and in his re-assessment of Romani identity within the Western cultural fabric

Music on the Move

Author : Danielle Fosler-Lussier
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126784
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Music on the Move written by Danielle Fosler-Lussier and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music is a mobile art. When people move to faraway places, whether by choice or by force, they bring their music along. Music creates a meaningful point of contact for individuals and for groups; it can encourage curiosity and foster understanding; and it can preserve a sense of identity and comfort in an unfamiliar or hostile environment. As music crosses cultural, linguistic, and political boundaries, it continually changes. While human mobility and mediation have always shaped music-making, our current era of digital connectedness introduces new creative opportunities and inspiration even as it extends concerns about issues such as copyright infringement and cultural appropriation. With its innovative multimodal approach, Music on the Move invites readers to listen and engage with many different types of music as they read. The text introduces a variety of concepts related to music’s travels—with or without its makers—including colonialism, migration, diaspora, mediation, propaganda, copyright, and hybridity. The case studies represent a variety of musical genres and styles, Western and non-Western, concert music, traditional music, and popular music. Highly accessible, jargon-free, and media-rich, Music on the Move is suitable for students as well as general-interest readers.

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society

Author : Gypsy Lore Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society written by Gypsy Lore Society and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romani Routes

Author : Carol Silverman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910227
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Romani Routes written by Carol Silverman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, Roma are revered as musicians and reviled as people. In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians address the challenges of discrimination. Focusing on southeastern Europe then moving to the diaspora, her book examines the music within Romani communities, the lives and careers of outstanding musicians, and the marketing of music in the electronic media and "world music" concert circuit. Silverman touches on the way that the Roma exemplify many qualities--adaptability, cultural hybridity, transnationalism--that are taken to characterize late modern experience. And rather than just celebrating these qualities, she presents the musicians as complicated, pragmatic individuals who work creatively within the many constraints that inform their lives.

Learn Romani

Author : Ronald Lee
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN 13 : 1902806441
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Learn Romani written by Ronald Lee and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romani has many dialects and no standard written form. This course of language lessons is based on the Romani language as spoken by the Kalderash Roma in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The course is designed for lay people, and any grammatical and linguistic terms are explained in plain English.

Gypsy Economy

Author : Micol Brazzabeni
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782388869
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Gypsy Economy written by Micol Brazzabeni and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic arrangements of Romanies are complexly related to their social position. The authors of this volume explore these complexities, including how economic exchanges forge key social relationships of gender and ethnicity, how economic opportunities are constructed and seized, and how economic success and failure are transformed into attributes of social persons. They explore how, despite — or perhaps because of — their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, shared today with a growing number of people facing precarity and informalisation, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies. The ethnographically based chapters share accounts of socially and economically vulnerable populations that face their situation with self-determination and creativity.

The Sweetness of Freedom

Author : Martha Aladjem Bloomfield
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628951443
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Sweetness of Freedom written by Martha Aladjem Bloomfield and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sweetness of Freedom presents an eclectic grouping of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century immigrants' narratives and the personal artifacts, historical documents, and photographs these travelers brought on their journeys to Michigan. Most of the oral histories in this volume are based on interviews conducted with the immigrants themselves. Some of the immigrants presented here hoped to gain better education and jobs. Others—refugees—fled their homelands because of war, poverty, repression, religious persecution, or ethnic discrimination. All dreamt of freedom and opportunity. They tell why they left their homelands, why they chose to settle in Michigan, and what they brought or left behind. Some wanted to preserve their heritage, religious customs, traditions, and ethnic identity. Others wanted to forget past conflicts and lost family members. Their stories reveal how they established new lives far away from home, how they endured homesickness and separation, what they gave up and what they gained.