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Index
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: a longue durée of segregation against Roma: inside of whiteness
Critical whiteness as the only option for epistemic justice for Roma in Central Europe: methodological grounds
Remapping postcolonial Central Europe: the book’s structure
Part I Whiteness: the never-ending story of epistemic injustice against Roma
1 Whiteness: a locus for doing race
Roma in Central Europe: obsession with whiteness
Critical whiteness: options for justice
Whiteness in Europe: the over-determination of racism
Central European resistance to critical whiteness: between overt reactionism and implicit eliminativism
Conclusion
2 Obscure racism: from national indifference to whitening Roma
National indifference in Central Europe: obscuring race and class
Fixing Jewish identity: in the footsteps of whiteness
Normalizing Roma: whitening the past
Conclusion
3 The post-socialist shift in pathologizing: from disabled Roma to disabled socialism
Pathologizing vs. normalizing: the two extremes of “whitening” Roma
Victimizing Roma: a (post-)socialist pathway of objectification
Historicizing as a possible response to pathologizing: toward epistemic justice
Conclusion
4 The limits and options of historical narratives concerning Roma in Central Europe
The normalizing and pathologizing of Roma as traditional narratives
Exemplary narratives in historicizing Roma: ruptures vs. continuities
Critical narratives of Central European history: losing Roma in transition
Quasi-genetic narratives of Roma: missing historical evidence
Conclusion
Part II The (in)educability of Roma: Central Europe between overt and enlightened racism
5 The inception of whiteness: the Grellmannian intersections of European Roma
The Grellmannian dichotomies: introducing colonial discourse to the “Gypsy issue”
Non-human “Gypsies” vs. human Europeans: struggling for progress
Eternal children vs. masterful adults: unapproachable assimilation
The bestiality of “Gypsy” women vs. the whiteness of European men: toward the radical divergence of racial difference
Conclusion
6 Global racial order comes to Central Europe: the puzzle of “White Gypsies” at the dawn of the twentieth century
Racial intermixture in the Western world: the inception of racial intersectionality
Postcolonial Europe in the focus of outsiders and insiders: deepening (non)whiteness
The threat of racial mixing in Central Europe: belligerent outsiders
Other Europeans? The view of benevolent outsiders
The response of insiders: adapting whiteness
Roma in the focus of insiders and outsiders: signifying peripheral Europe
Conclusion
7 The institutionalization of a racialized approach to Roma in the 1920s–1940s: rooting the stigma of an insecure population
A racialized approach to Roma in police surveillance: between the challenges of a global security agenda and nation-building
The doctrinal racism of František Štampach and Robert Ritter: the resonance of political will and personal choice
Schooling the (in)educable? The intraracial hierarchy of “Gypsy primitives” in action
Desirable “Gypsies” vs. unwanted others: an effective false antinomy in racializing Roma
Conclusion
8 In (re)search of inclusion: Roma under the pressure of de-historicizing between the 1950s and 1990s
Introduction
Post-Porajmos racism: whitening memories to exclude Roma
Roma in the global agenda of population studies: insecure populations vs. human progress
The “Gypsy issue” in the international agenda of human adaptability: the crystallization of the racist community
Implications for segregative practices: the outputs of the IBP in Czechoslovak policies concerning Roma
De-historicizing Roma in Czech socialist fiction: visualizing whiteness
Conclusion
Conclusion: epistemic justice for Central European Roma: toward the unlimited negation of whiteness
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