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The Roma - A Travelling History (Hardcover)
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The Roma - A Travelling History (Hardcover)
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List price R641
Loot Price R558
Discovery Miles 5 580
You Save R83 (13%)
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The Roma is a profoundly personal portrait of a people and their
on-going journey, shedding new light on their history and what it means
to be Romani in Europe today. It is a history that is not widely known
and understood, and that invisibility has created a space where fear
and hostility continue to thrive.
Full of fascinating stories and extraordinary individuals, The Roma is
a powerful corrective to the stereotyping and prejudices still faced by
Romani communities. We meet the Romani artist who chronicled her
experiences of the Holocaust in Austria; the boxer who should have
become Germany’s light-heavyweight champion only to have his win
scratched from the record by the Nazis; and a eighteenth-century Romani
woman in London who was accused of kidnapping a girl and sentenced to
death only to be exonerated thanks to some detective work by an
unconvinced judge.
Throughout, Madeline Potter weaves in her travels though contemporary
Romani Europe as well as strands of her own journey as a Romani woman
in Romania and now in Britain. Deftly blending explorative history and
portraits of a unique and vibrant culture with intimate accounts of
racism, The Roma is a celebration of survival – of resilience and
resistance in the face of prejudice and persecution.
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