Gypsies in Our Libraries
Ian Hancock
(Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, is the U.S. Delegate to the United Nations for the World Romani Union and author of The Pariah Syndrome: an Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution)
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Abstract
When the Library of Congress (LC) Subject Cataloging Division defended its decision last year to continue using “Gypsy” as its principal heading on the grounds that it was better known than the more correct “Rom,” it unwittingly demonstrated its own prejudices against my people.
Citation
Hancock, I. (1988), "Gypsies in Our Libraries", Collection Building, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 31-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023231
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1988, MCB UP Limited