Table of Contents

1 Djabravoki 2 Family tales 3 talking back 4 the Hungarian student Valyi Istvan and the Indian connection of Romani 5 on Romani origins and identity 6 Gypsies, gadA e, languages and labels 7 Romani religion 8 the standardisation of the Romani language: an overview and some recommendations 9 the schooling of Romani americans: an overview 10 duty and beauty, possession and truth: the claim of lexical impoverishment as control 11 George Borrow's Romani 12 the concocters: creating fake Romani culture 13 Gypsy Mafia, Romani saints: the racial profiling of Romani americans 14 the 'gypsy' stereotype and the sexualisation of Romani women 15 Responses to the Porrajmos (the Romani Holocaust) 16 the consequences of anti-Gypsy racism in europe 17 our need for internal diplomatic skills

About the Author

Ian Hancock is Director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He was born in Britain and descends on his father's side from Hungarian Romungre Romanies and on his mother's side from English Romanichal Gypsies. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Bill Clinton. Dileep Karanth is a lecturer at the Department of Physics, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha. Earlier in his student career, he had studied linguistics at the University of Texas, under Professor Hancock. With his background in Indic languages and Persian, Dr Karanth still continues to study the early development of Hindi-Urdu, and its implications for the Romani language.