"You can graduate from Europe's best universities and, like these two, have no idea about Romani culture. Change that for your students with a downloadable guide."
The Resource Guide's Team
Prepared by Eric Bergman (University of Helsinki, Finland), Simina Dragoș (University of Cambridge, UK), Luis Escobedo (University of the Free State, South Africa), Ram Hadroj (University of Tirana, Albania), Danielle Schoon (The Ohio State University, USA), Nick J. Sciullo (Texas A&M University, USA), Ioana Țîștea (Tampere University, Finland).
This anti-racist pedagogy guide is intended for teachers of students from roughly age 12 through the university level. It is specifically aimed at spreading knowledge about Romani peoples through the lens of critical race theory. It asks: How do we teach about Romani individuals, culture, history, and the intersection of politics, society, economics, gender, and more? What does anti-Romani racism look like, where does it come from, and what can we do about it? We do not pretend to offer conclusive answers to these questions. Rather, the guide opens a small space from which we all can continue learning, teaching, and asking questions. In the spirit of the guide, we hope you will continue to develop pedagogies of anti-racism and spread them forward, your ideas becoming beacons of light in what can be a distressing topic.
The guide was prepared during the Summer Course New Frontiers in Romani Studies: Insights from Critical Race Theory at Central European University in 2021. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not of their respective universities nor Central European University.
