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mods: The color black enslavement and erasure in Iran Baghoolizadeh, Beeta creator author. text bibliography History. ncu 2024 2024 monographic eng print xviii, 230 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm "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"-- Enslavement -- Geographies of blackness and enslavement -- Limits in family and photography -- Portraits of eunuchs and their afterlives -- Erasure -- Histories of a country that never enslaved -- Origins of blackface in the absence of Black people -- Memories and a genre of distortion -- Epilogue : Black life in the aftermath of a forced invisibility. Beeta Baghoolizadeh. Includes bibliographical references and index. AHA: Wesley-Logan Prize, 2025 a-ir--- 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 1…