Romanies within the interlocking matrix of racialization: How Ciganos in Brazil became accused of introducing an infectious disease

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/rost.2024.3" target="_blank" >https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/rost.2024.3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/rost.2024.3" target="_blank" >10.3828/rost.2024.3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Romanies within the interlocking matrix of racialization: How Ciganos in Brazil became accused of introducing an infectious disease

Original language description

Brazilian medical texts sometimes forge a link between Ciganos (Romanies) and the spread of trachoma, an infectious eye disease. The form of the claim has become standardized into something like this: trachoma was brought to the country in the eighteenth century by Ciganos who were deported from Portugal to the provinces of Maranhão and Ceará. This article traces the origins of this claim to a group of early twentieth-century ophthalmologists from Northeast Brazil, particularly in Ceará. It reveals that several racial projects are folded into the claim and makes a case for the need to approach the dynamics of racialization of Romanies relationally. The analysis of the Romani societal position, characteristics ascribed to them in relation to other communities, and the ways those communities are racialized not only reveals new insights but breaches the continued insularity of Romani studies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Romani Studies

ISSN

1528-0748

e-ISSN

1757-2274

Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

39-65

UT code for WoS article

001241127500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85196025733