Title The color black : enslavement and erasure in Iran / Beeta Baghoolizadeh

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2024

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 230 pages) : illustrations 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Slavery -- Iran -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Racism against Black people -- Iran -- History -- 19th century Racism against Black people -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Black people -- Iran -- Social conditions -- 19th century Black people -- Iran -- Social conditions -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies Black people -- Social conditions. Racism against Black people. Slavery. Iran. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2023026787 ISBN 9781478059257 1478059257 9781478094128 1478094125

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