Racism against gypsies in Turkish and American films
Abstract
Keywords : Amerika ve Turk Filmlerinde irkcilik -- cingeneler. Romani people dispersed worldwide after they left India about a thousand years
ago. Since they do not have a state that can protect their rights and act on behalf of
them, they have encountered nothing but maltreatment throughout history. Some
scholars give the estimated number of the Romani people living in the world as twelve
million.
For many centuries Romani have been craving recognition, the admittance of
their existence. Romanies are one of the fringe-groups that has been subjected to severe
racism. This project analyzes the racist depiction of Romani people in two Turkish and
American films. Cinema was selected as the main subject because cinema has an
enormous impact on the masses. The reason why this project uses Turkish and
American films, and analyzes the condition of Romanies in these films, is that both
countries have many similarities in handling the Romani issue. The mainstream society
of both countries has the same approach, attitudes, thoughts, and prejudices against
these people.
Roma have a unique lifestyle, which is an exclusionary one as well. Hence,
nowhere have they been regarded as a people who should be given equal righs.This
project aims to depict how the unreal image of the Roma has been exploited in film and
how the wrongly constructed concept of them caused these people to suffer for
centuries
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