Scholar and author interrogating anti‑Roma racism and its legacies
In this landmark work, Dr. Margareta (Magda) Matache traces more than six centuries of anti‑Roma racism and its protectors and shifting manifestations in Europe and beyond.
The Permanence of Anti‑Roma Racism: (Un)uttered Sentences (Routledge, 2025) names and theorizes anti‑Roma racism as a system of oppression, showing how it has been built, justified, and normalized across time. At the same time, the book challenges the distortions, minimizations, and absences around anti‑Roma racism in mainstream histories and scholarship and calls for a radical rethinking of Europe’s futures.
Magda Matache has written an instant classic that creatively and persuasively brings together theory, history, politics and personal lived experience in a unique and unprecedented way!
- Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary
This book will remain with the readers, and it will also encourage them. Neatly arranged in 15 headlines, it acts as a faithful guide to accountability.
- Suraj Milind Yengde, Harvard University
It is a very timely publication, especially considering the political environment we are now in, with laws being proposed in several states to ban discussion of race.
- Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard University
It is a text that speaks to Roma communities and their allies, to policymakers, educators, and activists—anyone concerned with equity, justice, and the honest reckoning with the past.
- Angela Kocze, Central European University
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