VII.
The Roma in North and South America
GROPPER, Rena C. Gypsies in the City: Cultural Patterns
and Survival. Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1975.
The author wrote this social study of the North
American Roma and their relatively closed community based on her extensive
fieldwork among them.
KEPHART, William. Extraordinary Groups: The Sociology of Unconventional
Lifestyles. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982.
This sociological study of North American communal
subcultures (the Amish, Shakers, Mormons, etc.) devotes its first chapter
to the American Roma and their uncompromising dedication to firm social
boundaries, keeping the gadje total outsiders.
MARCHBIN, A.A. “Gypsy Immigration to Canada.” Journal of the Gypsy Lore
Society, Third Series, 13 (1934): pp. 134-44.
This is an article on the history of Romany migration
to Canada from the United States and Europe. Some of the research the author
used in this article later became part of his Ph.D. dissertation, A Critical
History of the Origin and Migration of the Gypsies (Pittsburgh, 1939).
MAZZONE, G. L. “Traveling Criminals: Take the Money and Run.” FBI Law
Enforcement Bulletin 63 (July 1994): pp. 5-8.
This article is aimed at law enforcement personnel,
containing statistics about Romany criminal activities.
MCLAUGHLIN, John B. Gypsy Lifestyle. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books,
1980.
This is a controversial book about Romany lifestyle
and their traditional occupations in the United States, written by a deputy
sheriff and an associate professor with the Police Training Institute at
the University of Illinois.
SALO, M. T. “Gypsy Immigration to the United States.” Papers from the
Sixth and Seventh Annual Meetings, Gypsy Lore Society, North American
Chapter, New York, 1986, pp. 85-96.
Focused on Romany economic adaptability, this
paper offers information about Roma kumpania and their socio-economic patterns.
SALO, M. T., ed. “The American Kalderas: Gypsies in the New World.” Proceedings
of a symposium sponsored by the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter,
held at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, September 29, 1979. Hackettstown,
New Jersey: Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, 1981.
This is a collection of multidisciplinary studies
about the American Kalderas, authored two years after the formation of
the North American Chapter of the Gypsy Lore Society.
SUTHERLAND, Anne. Gypsies: The Hidden Americans. London and New
York: Free Press/Macmillan, 1975.
This portrait of the American Roma kumpania and
its complex socio-economic and judical system is based on the author’s
field work among a group of Vlach Roma.
SWAY, M. Familiar Strangers: Gypsy Life in America. Urbana and Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 1988.
This is a sociological study of the American Roma.
THOMAS, James D., et al. “Disease, Lifestyle and Consanguinity in Fifty-Eight
American Gypsies”. Lancet, 15 August 1987, pp. 376-79.
This medical study of the Roma presents the medical
risks assumed by a semi-closed community.
WEBER, Bruce. “A Hard Lesson.” New York Times Magazine, 23 March
1988.
This article discusses the fact that the Capitol
Children’s Museum in Washington D.C. refused to include Roma among the
Nazis’ victims.
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