The introduction contextualizes the long historical tradition of applying analogies between Romani and non-white populations – mainly African Americans and indigenous groups from America and Australia, through a cascade of historical quotations from the most influential texts. In order to emphasize the invisibility of whiteness, we juxtapose these palpable traces of racialization against systematic attempts to reject a postcolonial approach on the part of several Central European scholars. As an alternative to racializing Roma, critical whiteness calls for a comprehensive model of restoring justice. We discuss the strengths of epistemic justice, placing them in contrast to two comparable strategies: the violence of knowledge and the dilemma of redistribution vs. recognition. The last section of the introduction provides details concerning the structure of the book.