The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism

(Un)uttered Sentences
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-05001-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matache, Margareta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Telchudipen); 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

Über Autor(innen)

Margareta Matache is a Lecturer at the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the co-founder and Director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University. She is also a member of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health, and co-editor of Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (2021) and Realizing Roma Rights (2017). With over 25 years of experience in organizational leadership, policy advocacy, social change interventions, and academic work, Dr. Matache has dedicated her career to framing and addressing anti-Roma racism and other systems of oppression.