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"In Central Europe, limited success in revisiting the role of science in the segregation of Roma reverberates with the yet-unmet call for contextualizing the impact of ideas on everyday racism. This book attempts to interpret such a gap as a case of epistemic injustice. It underscores the historical role of ideas in race-making and provides analytical lenses for exploring cross-border transfers of whiteness in Central Europe. In the case of Roma, the scientific argument in favor of segregation continues to play an outstanding role due to a long-term focus on the limited educability of Roma. The authors trace the long-term interrelation between racializing Roma and the adaptation by Central European scholars of theories legitimizing segregation against those considered non-white, conceived as unable to become educated or "civilized." Along with legitimizing segregation, sterilization and even extermination, theorizing ineducability has laid the groundwork for negating the capacity of Roma as subjects of knowledge. Such negation has hindered practices of identity and quite literally prevented Roma in Central Europe from becoming who they are. This systematic epistemic injustice still echoes in contemporary attempts to historicize Roma in Central Europe. The authors critically investigate contemporary approaches to historicize Roma as reproducing whiteness and inevitably leading to various forms of epistemic injustice. The methodological approach herein conceptualizes critical whiteness as a practice of epistemic justice targeted at providing a sustainable platform for reflecting upon the impact of the past on the contemporary situation of Roma."--

What is the source of Obama''s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November 2012 presidential election? In this short and brilliant book, Jeffrey Alexander and Bernadette Jaworsky argue that neither money nor demography can explain this dramatic turnaround. What made it possible, they show, was cultural reconstruction. Realizing he had failed to provide a compelling narrative of his power, the President began forging a n

Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding Civil Courage in International Migration -- Part I: Righteous, Between Yesterday and Today -- Chapter 2: The Righteous of the Transnation: Jews, Muslims, and a Politics of Friendship in Berlin -- Chapter 3: "We are Jewish and We Want to Help You": Righteous Cross-Group Solidarity towards Muslim Refugees in Vienna -- Chapter 4: Righteous Doctors: Reacting to the Inhumane Treatment of Asylum Seekers in Australia -- Part II: Righteous, Today -- Chapter 5: When Saving Lives Becomes a Crime: Performances of Solidarity with Migrants along Europe's Southern Border -- Chapter 6: The Courage of Piety: Civil Solidarity and the Dead in International Migration -- Chapter 7: Solidary Cuisine: Las Patronas Facing the Central American Migratory Flow -- Chapter 8: Reaching Across: Migrant Support Activism on a Divided Island -- Chapter 9: "We Always Have Been and Always Will Be a Sanctuary City": Cities as Righteous Actors in the U.S. Civil Sphere -- Part III: Commentary and Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Commentary: The Discursive Paradox of the "Righteous Among the Nations" in Civil Sphere Theorizing -- Chapter 11: Conclusion: The Public Performance of Civil Righteousness.