Beeta Baghoolizadeh

The Color Black

Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

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Produktbeschreibung

Beeta Baghoolizadeh examines the twin processes of enslavement and erasure of Black people in Iran during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing how following the abolition of slavery in 1929, Iranian society collectively forgot and ignored its history of racism and slavery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030249
• ISBN-10: 1478030240
• Artikelnr.: 68282738

Autorenporträt

Beeta Baghoolizadeh is Associate Research Scholar in the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations  ix
Note on Transliteration  xi
Note on Photography  xiii
Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction  1
Part I. Enslavement  25
1. Geographies of Blackness and Enslavement  27
2. Limits in Family and Photography  44
3. Portraits of Eunuchs and Their Afterlives  67
Part II. Erasure  93
4. Histories of a Country That Never Enslaved  95
5. Origins of Blackface in the Absence of Black People  115
6. Memories and a Genre of Distortion  133
Epilogue: Black Life in the Aftermath of a Forced Invisibility  149
Notes  163
Bibliography  203
Index  221