Challenging Americanism and Europeanism: African-Americans and Roma in the American South and European Union ‘South’

Rucker-Chang, Sunnie

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“…There is much to be learned from ethnic studies fields, such as Black Studies and Romani Studies, which were created primarily because students and activist scholars pushed universities to be inclusive of the experiences and cultures of non-white racialized communities in university curricula. 30 Although small in number, publications in SEEES reveal a sustained interest in race and racialization as a facet of history, identity formation, sociocultural hierarchies, entanglements and encounters with the Global South, and relationships between colonizer and colonized, at least in the case of the Soviet Union. In Balkan Studies, a number of recent books and articles on the Non-Aligned Movement, race , intersectionality, transnational racial solidarities, medical anthropology, and a number of book publications in Romani Studies recognize race as fundamental to understanding the sociocultural structuring of southeastern European societies and offer illustrative examples on how to center or incorporate the study of race into broader analyses of the region.…”

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A Moment of Reckoning: Transcending Bias, Engaging Race and Racial Formations in Slavic and East European Studies

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Ohueri²

2021

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Race and racial formations and categories define global systems of power and are not bound by history or culture. Nevertheless, with few noted exceptions, race as a category of analysis has largely been rejected and rendered inapplicable within Slavic, east European, and Eurasian Studies. This unwillingness to expand categories of critical analysis has created a void in our area and field of study, shaping a false sense of racelessness. Without the inclusion of race critical theories into our classrooms and scholarship, our students are left with minimal tools to address difference and social exclusion. In this article, we turn to critical perspectives to highlight some ways that race is being meaningfully incorporated into scholarship about the region. We illustrate why engagement with race and racialization is helpful for analysis, urgent, and necessary. Finally, we also address how our field can better prepare students as they engage these subjects.

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A Moment of Reckoning: Transcending Bias, Engaging Race and Racial Formations in Slavic and East European Studies

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2021

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Roma Rights and Civil Rights

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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. Since the nineteenth century, scholarship on European Roma has been dominated by the ethnographic approach of "Gypsiology," or Gypsy lore, which is preoccupied with Roma culture, folklore, and origins. 1 This approach rests on a proposition, often attributed to the German historian Heinrich Mortiz Gottlieb Grellmann (1753-1804), that the itinerant groups scattered across Europe, frequently (and pejoratively) called Gypsies, constitute an ethnic group bound by a common language and land of origin, India. 2 Under the spell of this thesis, successive generations of Gypsiologists attempted to uncover the paths that the first Roma had traveled into Europe, using historical and linguistic evidence to prove or disprove the links to India. 3 Along the way, they classified Roma into intricate categories based on culture, dialect, and geography. Rather than seeing that all the variations challenged a unifying ethnic categorization of "Gypsy," Gypsiologists bemoaned the imminent extinction of the "true Gypsy," an archetype that hewed close to the central features of the ethnicity. 4 1

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Challenging Americanism and Europeanism: African-Americans and Roma in the American South and European Union ‘South’

Cited by 25 publications

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A Moment of Reckoning: Transcending Bias, Engaging Race and Racial Formations in Slavic and East European Studies

A Moment of Reckoning: Transcending Bias, Engaging Race and Racial Formations in Slavic and East European Studies

Roma Rights and Civil Rights

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