Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
“The American Rom: A Case of Economic Adaptation.” in Gypsies, Tinkers and Other Travellers, edited by Farnham Rehfisch, (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975). pp 1–40. Sutherland, Anne. Gypsies: The Hidden Americans (Tavistock Publications, 1975). Sway, Marlene. Familiar Strangers: Gypsy Life in America (University of Illinois Press, 1988).
Nettie Stanley - matriarch of the family starring in the TLC reality television series "Gypsy Sisters" Chrissy Teigen - model, television personality, author; Tracey Ullman - actress; Cecilia Woloch - poet [14] Yul Brynner - Russian-born American actor who was an Honorary President of the second World Romani Congress, whose mother was a ...
Tells you about the world "Gypsy" and Hungarian Slovak Gypsies. An 80 page published study. Romani Realities in the United States - Harvard University; Gypsy Violins Hungarian Slovak Gypsies in America, 2012 by Steve Piskor ISBN 978-0-578-09989-7; Gypsy Fires in America p. 214 by Irving Brown, 1924 - Irving Brown writes about Braddock, Pa Gypsies
Gratiela Brancusi – American-Romanian actress; Yul Brynner – Russian-American actor and honorary president of the International Romani Union; Jesús Castro- Spanish actor; Charlie Chaplin – English comic actor [29] Lyalya Chyornaya – Russian actress; Jan Cina – Czech actor [30] Joaquín Cortés – Spanish ballet and flamenco dancer
The English term gypsy or gipsy [16] is commonly used to indicate Romani people, [17] and use of the word gipsy in modern-day English is pervasive (and is a legal term under English law—see below), and some Romani organizations use it in their own organizational names, particularly in the United Kingdom.
In Britain, many Roma proudly identify as "Gypsies", [93] and, as part of the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller grouping, this is the name used to describe all para-Romani groups in official contexts. [125] In North America, the word Gypsy is most commonly used as a reference to Romani ethnicity, though lifestyle and fashion are at times also ...
listed alphabetically by surname. Adam Ant (born 1954) – English punk/New Wave musician; of Romanichal descent; Jake Bowers (born 1971) – journalist and broadcaster; James Carver (born 1969) – British MEP (Member of the European Parliament) Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) - English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer
Historically, mixed-race European-Native American and sometimes full blood Native American families of the South adopted the term "Black Dutch" for their own use, and to a lesser extent, "Black Irish," first in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. As the researcher Paul Heinegg noted, the frontier was also the area of settlement of mixed ...