The color black : enslavement and erasure in Iran / Beeta Baghoolizadeh.
| Author/creator |
Baghoolizadeh, Beeta author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2024. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2024 |
| Description | xviii, 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
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| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Baghoolizadeh, Beeta Color black Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478059257 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2023026786 |
| ISBN | 9781478030249 |
| ISBN | 1478030240 paperback |
| ISBN | 9781478026013 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1478026014 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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