![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That changed at the age of twelve when his father took him to see Robert Duvall’s Angelo My Love and confessed his American Gypsy background. Nirenberg warns in the foreword (the electronic format lacks pagination, making exact referencing impossible) that the story he is about to tell is “a cautionary tale about a civil rights movement going nowhere and disappointing the millions of Roma who put their trust in it.” The man who makes such a sweeping claim grew up in a comfortable American middle-class milieu without any awareness of his Romani roots. While a self-published electronic book may arouse doubts about its value as an academic resource, this work delivers plenty of interesting insights and observations. Gypsy movements is a personal memoir describing Nirenberg’s coming of age as a political activist. Jud Nirenberg is a respected consultant, public speaker, author and interpreter of the Romani quest for empowerment. I will start with Jud Nirenberg’s account, which takes the reader to the very beginning of the post-socialist era and introduces events and figures that continue to influence today’s Romani politics. ![]() Both books describe the emergence of Romani leaders in post-socialist Eastern Europe and their effort at establishing and maintaining legitimacy within and outside the burgeoning Roma rights movement. ![]()
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