African Americans and Gypsies a cultural relationship

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African Americans and Gypsies have a cultural relationship formed through slavery and hardships and of marginalisation through racial visibility, eventhough it must also be noted that african americans are much more emancipated and part of mainstream society in the USA then gypsies are in europe. The african americans have also elites and middle class, while most gypsies lack that and are a underclass. So while bother are similar they are also different.

African Americans and the Gypsies: a cultural relationship formed through hardships

Mihaela Mudure - From the Gypsies to the African Americans

Abstract: This paper is an analysis of comparative multiculturalisms. Starting from the historical reality that both the Roma and the African-Americans were reified through slavery and discriminated against because of their racial visibility, the author analyses the position of the two groups in the Romanian, namely, the American society. The lead of the African-Americans in overcoming the racial stigma is explained by the author through: the opportunities offered by a powerful and consolidated democracy, and by the existence of an elite of the minority group. These factors should be envisaged by Romanian society when trying to make both the minority and the majority cooperate in order to avoid the transformation of the Roma into an under-class group, a great challenge with a view to Romania’s integration into the EU structures.