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 19th century Black people Iran Social conditions 20th century Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires Iran Histoire 19e siècle Racisme à l'égard des personnes noires Iran Histoire 20e siècle Personnes noires Iran Conditions sociales 19e siècle Personnes noires Iran Conditions sociales 20e siècle SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Middle Eastern Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) Black people Social conditions Racism against Black people Slavery Iran 1800-1999 fast HT1286 .B344 2024 306.3/62095509034 SOC008070 SOC056000 Color black Baghoolizadeh, Beeta Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 (DLC) 2023026787 9781478030249 1478030240 9781478026013 1478026014 9781478059257 2023026786 NcD/DLC 230908 20240615141154.0 in00005779835 eng