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.
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.
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
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
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