Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmatized and segregated "Gypsy urban areas" have emerged and persisted in post-WWII Europe. Building on nearly a decade of ethnographic and historical research in Romania, Italy, France and the UK, Giovanni Picker casts a series of case studies into the historical framework of circulations and borrowings between colony and metropole since the late 19th century.
By focusing on socio-economic transformations and social dynamics in...
Going beyond race-blind approaches to spatial segregation in Europe, Racial Cities argues that race is the logic through which stigmati...
