The Color Black : Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

• Autore: Baghoolizadeh Beeta
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.3/62095509034
• Soggetto topico: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies
• Soggetto non controllato: Manumission Law of 1929; memory; slavery; enslavement; abolition; Blackness; Iran; race; visibility; erasure; archival studies; visual studies; Middle East; Persian Gulf; racial geographies; human trafficking; photography; family; domestic enslavement; Qajar court; minstrelsy; Naser ed-Din Shah; eunuchs'; Mozaffar ed-Din Shah; Reza Shah; nationalism; Pahlavi Era; siyah; Trouillot; history-making; Black Iranians; Iran-Iraq War; social media
• Classificazione: SOC008070SOC056000
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration -- Note on Photography -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Enslavement -- 1. Geographies of Blackness and Enslavement -- 2. Limits in Family and Photography -- 3. Portraits of Eunuchs and Their Afterlives -- Part II. Erasure -- 4. Histories of a Country That Never Enslaved -- 5. Origins of Blackface in the Absence of Black People -- 6. Memories and a Genre of Distortion -- Epilogue: Black Life in the Aftermath of a Forced Invisibility -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Color Black
• ISBN: 1-4780-9412-5; 1-4780-5925-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911064826103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II