Gypsy Fires
Gypsy Fires

Author: Edna Evans

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0595208975

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As Wade Kincaid, a wealthy Texas rancher, is out checking water holes on his ranch, he has a chance meeting with a beautiful dancing Gypsy girl, Luana, who makes him momentarily forget his mentally ill wife, Stephanie. This meeting will change their lives forever.When Kincaid invites Luana and her family to stay on his ranch, how could he have known the many struggles that were ahead?

Romanies in Michigan
Romanies in Michigan

Author: Martha Aladjem Bloomfield

Publisher: MSU Press

Published: 2019-07-01

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1628953799

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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.

The Gypsy-American
The Gypsy-American

Author: David J. Nemeth

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13:

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This study is a regional ethnography, that focuses on an ambiguously-defined ethnic group in the United States - Rom Gypsies - whose survival strategies and stratagems appear to center ideally on the secrecy and mobility of its members. The study focuses primarily on the activities of Thomas Nicholas, a self-ascribed Rom Gypsy-American, and his family, and offers extraordinary insight into the Gypsy-American ethnos. The book also addresses complex issues in Gypsy studies social science scholarship, provides a critique of its mission and accomplishments, and offers a unique window into the lives of some typical Gypsy scholars.

Gypsies
Gypsies

Author: Anne Sutherland

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 1986-07-01

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1478610417

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The Gypsies portrayed in this book are the Vlax-speaking Rom, the largest group of Gypsies in the United States, numbering 500,000. Not officially recognized as a minority in the U.S. until 1972, Gypsies have led an almost entirely invisible existence here. Now in this fascinating workthe first complete account of American GypsiesSutherland has produced an in-depth look at the full range of everyday social life among the Rom. Separate, elusive, complex, and unique among the people of the world, Gypsies have preserved their traditional way of life. How have they avoided assimilation? What keeps them apart? How are they organized, and what do they believe? These and other important questions about these hidden Americans are addressed in Sutherlands contemporary study.

American Gypsy
American Gypsy

Author: Oksana Marafioti

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0374104077

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Recounts the author's early experiences as a fifteen-year-old Gypsy emigrating with her family from the Soviet Union to the United States.

Questioning Gypsy Identity
Questioning Gypsy Identity

Author: Brian Belton

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780759105331

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Brian Belton's powerfully original book examines Gypsy lives against the framework of social theories that illustrate how identity arises out of the cultural complexity of individual biographies, families, and communities. Addressing the lack of contextual and social perspectives in the existing literature and the underlying assumption of a consistent Gypsy lineage, he explores the subject of identity to include the broader social context in which the population exists. He argues that Gypsy identity is created and maintained not only by tradition and heredity, but also by social and ideological factors that give rise to the "ethnic narrative" of Gypsy identity. Growing up in an English Gypsy family, Belton offers a unique "outsider-insider" perspective to Questioning Gypsy Identity, writing what are essentially stories of people--how they are made, their social force, and what they collectively create.