Steve Piskor 2nd interview v2

Partial Transcript: "My name is Steve Piskor, I'm the author of a book titled "Gypsy Violins: Hungarian-Slovak Gypsies in America"

Keywords: Author; Book; Violin

Partial Transcript: "You mentioned before that you were working on a project to have Roma, Roma-Gypsies classified as a minority in the U.S. - could you tell us about that?"

Keywords: Cleveland; Gypsies; Hungarians; Jack Russell; minorities; politicians; population; white; whiteness

Partial Transcript: "I've been in touch with a lot of different people today in Hungary"

Keywords: Europe; European parliament; First Lady; Lívia Járóka; President Obama; Slovenia; discrimination; education; segregation; welfare

Partial Transcript: "When our first people came in the 18, uh, the earliest ones I found were about 1887, that were coming over, and that was here in Cleveland and Braddock, Pennsylvania, and there was a lot of information about discrimination against them"

Keywords: Braddock; Cleveland; DNA; Ohio; Pennsylvania; assimilation; discrimination; genetics; immigration; intermarriage; race

Partial Transcript: "They were all going to back me up to submit the... for a grant, and unfortunately it was during election time and we all thought for sure that Hilary Clinton was going to win so we kept on going with it and when that changed it was all over with." "Why was it all over with, from your perspective?"

Keywords: Django Reinhardt; Donald Trump; Gypsies; Gypsy Jazz; Gypsy Violins; Gypsy vs. Roma; Hilary Clinton; Hollywood films and movies; Hungarian Gypsy music; Ian Hancock; Lívia Járóka; Sinti; Youngstown Ohio; activists; baby stealers; book; census; discrimination; districting; flamenco; fortune tellers; funding; genealogical research; grant; minority status; musicians; slurs and derogatory usage of Gypsy; stereotypes

Partial Transcript: "When I went to Europe, I didn't take pictures of the kids begging and the Gypsies begging"

Keywords: Europe; begging; money; photography

Partial Transcript: "Has your faith in the political process changed at all throughout your life?"

Keywords: African Americans; Austria-Hungary; English law and politics; Political process; constitution; ethnic cleansing; forced integration; language; laws; marriage restrictions; me too; political change; populism; racism; state intervention into Roma families; structural racism

Partial Transcript: "I'm also an advocate for nursing home abuse"

Keywords: Mike Dewine; abuse; congressional bill; constitution; elderly care; legal change; lobbyists; nursing homes; personal attacks; politicians; term limits

Partial Transcript: "You talked a little bit about assimilation as far as in some of the European countries vs. in the U.S. and I was wondering if you could expand on how the political structures have affected assimilation"

Keywords: Braddock; Cleveland; Gypsies; Hungarian; Hungary; India; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Slovak; Slovakia; activism; ancestry; anthropology; assimilation; caravans; enclave communities; fear; immigration; losing traditions and heritage; neighborhood; passing; twenty-first century lifeways