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Colorblind : racial thinking and cultural production in modern Iran and the diaspora /

"With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of black Iranians, many have insisted that race is not an important aspect of Iranian culture,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Motlagh, Amy, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2026]
Series:Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Subjects:
Iranians > Race identity.
National characteristics, Iranian.
Group identity > Iran.
Black people > Iran.
Iran > Race relations.
Iran > Intellectual life.
Iraniens.
Personnes noires > Iran.
Black people
Group identity
Iranians
National characteristics, Iranian
Iran
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : to what ends do we recover (or discover) blackness?
  • Iranian Aryanism and racial thinking
  • Racial realism
  • The longing for black radical thought
  • Performing blackness on stage and screen
  • Documenting race and Iranian identity
  • Curating blackness
  • Conclusion : to what ends do we recover the voices of the enslaved?