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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)

Collection Building

ISSN: 0160-4953

Article publication date: 1 January 1988

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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

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1988, MCB UP Limited

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