The Color Black
Enslavement and Erasure in Iran
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2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3024-9 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3024-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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.
Beeta Baghoolizadeh is Associate Research Scholar in the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.03.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 33 illustrations, including 5 in color |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 431 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-3024-0 / 1478030240 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-3024-9 / 9781478030249 |
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