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The color black : enslavement and erasure in Iran / Beeta Baghoolizadeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baghoolizadeh, Beeta, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Iran--History--19th century.
- Slavery.
- Slavery--Iran--History--20th century.
- Racism against Black people--Iran--History--19th century.
- Racism against Black people.
- Racism against Black people--Iran--History--20th century.
- Black people--Iran--Social conditions--19th century.
- Black people.
- Black people--Iran--Social conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In The Color Black, Beeta Baghoolizadeh traces the twin processes of enslavement and erasure of Black people in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illustrates how geopolitical changes and technological advancements in the nineteenth century made enslaved East Africans uniquely visible in their servitude in wealthy and elite Iranian households. During this time, Blackness, Africanness, and enslavement became intertwined-and interchangeable-in Iranian imaginations. After the end of slavery in 1929, the implementation of abolition involved an active process of erasure on a national scale, such that a collective amnesia regarding slavery and racism persists today. The erasure of enslavement resulted in the erasure of Black Iranians as well. Baghoolizadeh draws on photographs, architecture, theater, circus acts, newspapers, films, and more to document how the politics of visibility framed discussions around enslavement and abolition during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In this way, Baghoolizadeh makes visible the people and histories that were erased from Iran and its diaspora"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Enslavement
- Geographies of Blackness and Enslavement
- Boundaries in Portraiture and Kinship
- Legacies of Eunuchs and the Life They Upheld
- Erasure
- Histories of a Country That Never Enslaved
- Origins of Blackface in the Absence of Black People
- Memory and a Genre of Distortion
- Black Life in the Aftermath of a Forced Invisibility.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Baghoolizadeh, Beeta Color black
- ISBN:
- 9781478026013
- 9781478030249
- 1478030240
- 1478026014
- OCLC:
- 1381545876
- Publisher Number:
- 99995890395
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