Recommended Websites
The featured Websites are selected to inform viewers about Gypsy culture and related knowledge. Some websites are no longer accessibile except through the . Please note also that the current images on the live websites may be different from those in the screenshots.
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Fascination and Hatred: The Roma in European Culture
Description: "There is insufficient attention paid to the long history of the Roma within European culture." October 10, 2020"
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Geographical Arrangement
The Americas
About the Roma: Romani Americans Then and Now
A blog by Julie Cantrell with an overview of different Romani-American groups.
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Gypsies
National Geographic Magazine article. Excellent photographic images from around the world. Provocative discussion forum.
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"Gypsies" in the United States
An exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution' "Migrations in History" exporing diverse "Gypsy" communities such as the Rom, Ludar, Romnichels, Black Dutch, and Hungarian Gypsies.
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The Gypsy Chronicles
The Gypsy Chronicles - A comprehensive site on Roma history, culture, authors and artists, photography, and music.
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Gypsy Lore Society
Gypsy Lore Society (founded 1888). Excellent entry-level resource promoting the highest standards for scholarly research in Gypsy (Romani) and Traveler studies
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National Romani Anti-Discrimination Organization
An organization of educators, activists, sympathizers, and supporters to: monitor anti-Roma disrimination in public and the media; to provide accurate information; to raise awareness of issues facing Roma; expose sources of inaccurate information; and to support projects and initiatives supporting Romani people and their supporters.
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The Never-ending Road: American Roma (Gypsy ), Travellers, & "Others"
Links to sites about Roma living in the Americas.
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Notes from the Field
This site focuses on Romani gravestones in a Los Angeles cemetery, motivated by observations of religious dance societies in Northern Chile in 1986 with roots in The Croatian Diaspora.
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Roma (Gypsies) in Prewar Europe
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website here houses many articles and photographs. Featured here are three film clips.
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Romani people
Wikipedia article
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Romani (Gypsy) Culture on the Internet
Compilation by Professor Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
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Eurasia, Africa, Pacifica
Romani People in Europe
Europeana (The European Digital Library): Romani Culture Featured in Digital Exhibition. The exhibits will feature A Roma Journey with historical documentation of Europe's Roma communities and links to Romani cultural objects such as carpets, furniture, and costumes.
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European Roma Rights Center (ERRC)
Sophisticated educational site dedicated to training Romani activists.
URL: http://www.errc.org/
Irish Traveller Movement
Details about the Irish Traveller Movement
URL: https://itmtrav.ie/
George Borrow Society Page
Borrow is much-admired for his inspirational writings about Gypsies and Travelers.
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Journey Folki
Convivial site: glad-handed nostalgia with arts and crafts orientation
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The Patrin Web Journal
Romani Culture and History. The most comprehensive and popular English-language website for online information about GR&T Peoples. Unfortunately it has not been updated since 2002.
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A Roma Journey
A highy interactive multimedia Web presentation of Romani culture in the Balkans, featuring text, photos, paintings,and recordings of traditional songs.
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Romaninet
"A course for adults and young people, suitable for being used by everybody, no matter the academic level." This multi-lingual site teaches about Romani culture and language to a broad audience, using games and exercises, skteches, animations, and dialogues.""
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Social Cultural Foundation
A website that advocates for Rroma peoples and informs about their cultures and lifestyles
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"Who We Were, Who We Are
Kosovar Roma Oral History. The site offers an index to oral histories of Kosovar Roma.
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