Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran

Episode 43 September 07, 2024 00:39:43
Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran
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Ajam Podcast #43: Histories of Blackness, Enslavement, and Erasure in Iran

Sep 07 2024 | 00:39:43

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Show Notes

In this episode, Belle interviews Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, about her recent book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, 2024). They discuss the history of enslavement in Iran, and the erasures surrounding those histories of enslavement following abolition in Iran in 1929, particularly of enslaved Black people, in the archives and in collective memory. 

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