Full Description
Anti-Roma racism, one of Europe's oldest and most enduring racisms, has been concealed in mainstream theories and discourse. This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental histories and global scholarship, exploring its specific and universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness with other systems of oppression.
The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences offers a theoretical perspective on the roots of anti-Roma racism, tracing its genesis in the system of racialized slavery in the historical territories of present-day Romania and the politics of killings, expulsions, and entry-bans across Europe in the late Middle Ages. Employing theoretical frameworks of structural oppressions, anti-colonial and decolonial thought, racialization, and intersectionality, this book analyzes how deep historical legacies continue to shape anti-Roma racism as an enduring, structural form of oppression.
This scholarly work is essential for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students working on the sociology of racialization, global race and structural racisms, and modern European history. It defines, categorizes, and unpacks the processes and mechanisms of racialization and anti-Roma racism, shedding light on a system of oppression too often left unspoken.
Contents
Foreword by Angela Kocze; 1. Introduction; 2. A Positional Exploration of My Family History; 3. The Roma People: Who Can We Become?; 4. A Structural Examination of Roma People's Oppression (Ofitsialo Telćhudipen); 5. Geneses of anti-Romani Racism; 6. Placing the Origins of Anti-Roma Racism in the Global Scholarship on Racisms and Castes; 7. Telaveriaripen (Racialization) and Gadjoness; 8. Telaveriaripen: Patters in the Racialization of the Roma People; 9. Absolute Racialization: Kin Racializing and Dehumanizing Processes; 10. Organized Killings as Law; 11. Bodily Violence; 12. Organized Erasure of the Roma History and Culture; 13. Dur-rigate-dinipe - Apartness; 14. Gadjikano Politics and Policymaking; 15. Epilogue: Letter To My Nephew on The Menace of Gadjoness; Postscript by Suraj Milind Yengde
