The Roads of the Roma
Title | The Roads of the Roma PDF eBook |
Author | Siobhan Dowd |
Publisher | Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 9780900458903 |
This is an international anthology of English translations of Roma poetry and prose. The writings in this text reflect the 30 contributors shared experiences of prejudice, discrimination and persecution, as well as joy in nature and life. The lives of the contributors are told in brief biographical notes reflecting the many roads followed by the Roma in coming to terms with modern society.
Roads to Rome
Title | Roads to Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Franchot |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2022-03-25 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520305663 |
The mixture of hostility and fascination with which native-born Protestants viewed the "foreign" practices of the "immigrant" church is the focus of Jenny Franchot's cultural, literary, and religious history of Protestant attitudes toward Roman Catholicism in nineteenth-century America. Franchot analyzes the effects of religious attitudes on historical ideas about America's origins and destiny. She then focuses on the popular tales of convent incarceration, with their Protestant "maidens" and lecherous, tyrannical Church superiors. Religious captivity narratives, like those of Indian captivity, were part of the ethnically, theologically, and sexually charged discourse of Protestant nativism. Discussions of Stowe, Longfellow, Hawthorne, and Lowell—writers who sympathized with "Romanism" and used its imaginative properties in their fiction—further demonstrate the profound influence of religious forces on American national character. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads
Title | The Airship ROMA Disaster in Hampton Roads PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy E. Sheppard |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2016-01-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1625856695 |
In March 1921, Major John G. Thornell and his crew were detailed to Italy to procure a new experimental airship for the United States Army Air Service. Stationed at Langley Field in Hampton, the ROMA never lived up to expectations despite being heralded as the future of military innovation. Tragically, it crashed and erupted in a ball of fire in 1922, claiming the lives of thirty-four of the brave men aboard. Author Nancy E. Sheppard reveals the forgotten, harrowing story of one of the last great airships and those who sacrificed for the promise of a new era in aviation.
Romani Routes
Title | Romani Routes PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Silverman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2012-05-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0195300947 |
Now that the political and economic plight of European Roma and the popularity of their music are objects of international attention, Romani Routes provides a timely and insightful view into Romani communities both in their home countries and in the diaspora. Over the past two decades, a steady stream of recordings, videos, feature films, festivals, and concerts has presented the music of Balkan Gypsies, or Roma, to Western audiences, who have greeted them with exceptional enthusiasm. Yet, as author Carol Silverman notes, Roma are revered as musicians and reviled as people. In this book, Silverman introduces readers to the people and cultures who produce this music, offering a sensitive and incisive analysis of how Romani musicians address the challenges of discrimination. Focusing on southeastern Europe then moving to the diaspora, her book examines the music within Romani communities, the lives and careers of outstanding musicians, and the marketing of music in the electronic media and "world music" concert circuit. Silverman touches on the way that the Roma exemplify many qualities -- adaptability, cultural hybridity, transnationalism--that are taken to characterize late modern experience. And rather than just celebrating these qualities, she presents the musicians as complicated, pragmatic individuals who work creatively within the many constraints that inform their lives.
We are the Romani People
Title | We are the Romani People PDF eBook |
Author | Ian F. Hancock |
Publisher | Univ of Hertfordshire Press |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781902806198 |
The author, himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society.
The Roads of the Romans
Title | The Roads of the Romans PDF eBook |
Author | Romolo Augusto Staccioli |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Roads |
ISBN | 9780892367320 |
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Living Beyond the Pale
Title | Living Beyond the Pale PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Fil? k |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 6155225133 |
We find Roma settlements on the outskirts of villages, separated from the majority population by roads, railways or other barriers, disconnected from water pipelines and sewage treatment. Why are some people (or groups) better off than others when it comes to the distribution of environmental benefits? In order to understand the present situation and identify ways to address the impacts of these inequalities we must understand the past and mechanisms related to the differentiated treatment. The situation and discrimination of the Roma ethnic minority in Slovakia is examined from the perspective of environmental conditions and injustice. There is no simple answer as to why there is environmental injustice. Environmental conditions in Roma settlements are just one of the indicators of failures of policies addressing the problem of poverty and social exclusion in marginalized groups, structural discrimination, and internal Roma problems. Environmental injustice is not an outcome of the "historical determination" of the Roma population to live in environmentally problematic places.