“A Global Idea of Race: Greek Gypsies, Blackness” Featured in Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication edited by Dr. Bernadette Calafell & Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi (2023, Routledge).

This chapter navigates new pathways through Louis M. Maraj’s (2020) method of Black auto/ethnography to consider how the racial icons of Gypsyness and Blackness operate across transnational inter(con)texts to help buttress a global idea of race and the modern European subject. Engaging Maraj and Denise Ferreira da Silva (2007), Athanasopoulos critiques domination within Greek society, rhetoricizes the operations of whiteness within Greek society, and considers the vernacular discourses and alternative ways of living emanating from Greek/Roma communities against anti/Roma Greek society. Relatedly, Athanasopoulos examines how the vernacular discourses of Greek/Roma peoples concerning anti/Blackness provide opportunities for theorizing solidarity as well as critiquing its more harmful aspects (Sugino, 2024; Sexton, 2010).