Roma (Gypsy) History, Life & Values
(see also Anti-Gypsyism & Holocaust)
Basics:
On the Web: Specialized Sites
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Acton, T.A. Gypsy Politics & Social Change: The Development of Ethnic Ideology & Pressure Politics among British Gypsies from Victorian Reformism to Romany Nationalism (London, 1974).
Anon. Rom: Europe’s Gypsies (London, 1974).
Clebert, Jean Paul. The Gypsies (London, 1963).
Crowe, David M. & John Kosti (eds.) The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991).
__________. A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe & Russia (NY, 1994).
Denham, Diana. Gypsies in Social Space (Palo Alto: Ragusan, 1981).
Feher, Gyorgy. Struggling for Ethnic Identity: The Gypsies of Hungary (NY: Human Rights Watch, 1993).
Ficowski, Jerzy. The Gypsies in Poland: History & Customs (Warsaw: Interpress, 1989).
Fonseca, Isabel. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies & Their Journey (NY: Knopf, 1995). Good introduction to hardships faced by Roma in Eastern Europe.
Fraser, Angus M. The Gypsies (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
Gay y Blasco, Paloma. Gypsies in Madrid: Sex, Gender & the Performance of Identity (NY: Berg, 1999).
Gropper, Rena C. Gypsies in the City: Culture Patterns & Survival (Princeton NJ: Darwin, 1975).
Lewy, Guenter. The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (NY: Oxford, 2000).
Keil, Charles; Angeliki Vellou Keil, Dick Blau & Steven Feld. Bright Balkan Morning: Romani Lives & the Power of Music in Greek Macedonia (? CT: Wesleyan, 2002). First-person Roma narratives interwoven with photographs, cultural commentary & "soundscapes" on an audio CD.
Lemon, Alaina. Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance & Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism (Durham NC, 2000).
Liegeois, Jean-Pierre. Gypsies: An Illustrated History (London: Al-Saqi, 1986).
Lockwood, William O. & Sheila Salo. Gypsies & Travellers in North America: An Annotated Bibliography (Cheverly MD: Gypsy Lore Society, 1994).
Lucassen, Leo; Wim Willems & Annemarie Cottaar. Gypsies & Other Itinerant Groups: A Socio-Historical Approach (NY: St. Martin's, 1998).
Maas, Peter. King of the Gypsies (NY: Bantam, 1975).
Marushiakova, Elena & Vesselin Popov. Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria (NY: Peter Lang, 1997).
__________. Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire: A Contribution to the History of the Balkans (Hatfield: U. of Hertfordshire, 2001).
McLaughlin, John B. Gypsy Lifestyles (Lexington MA: Lexington, 1980).
Port, Mattijs van de. Gypsies, Wars & Other Instances of the Wild: Civilisation & Its Discontents in a Serbian Town (Amsterdam: U. of Amsterdam, 1998).
Sutherland, Anne. Gypsies: The Hidden Americans (NY: Free Press, 1975).
Sway, Marlene. Familiar Strangers: Gypsy Life in America (Urbana: U. Illinois, 1988).
Tong, Diana (ed.) Gypsies: An Interdisciplinary Reader (NY, 1998).
Wilson, Robert C. Gypsies (NY: Bantam, 1989).
Yoors, Jan. The Gypsies (NY, 1967).
__________. Crossing (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1971). Nazi persecutions.
In the Library: Fiction
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In the Library: Photography
Koudelka, Josef. Gypsies. Photographs (Millerton NY, 1975).
Tomasevic, Nebojsa Bato & Rajko Djuric. Gypsies of the World (NY: Henry Holt, 1988).