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... Part I opens with a question on the role of “love” ascribed to narratives of enslavement. Chapter 1 examines the imagined racial geographies that informed architectural structures and urban spaces in the nineteenth century. Opening with the story of Khyzran, a Zanzibari woman who...

... her life, justified her enslavement, and jeopardized her freedom. After enslaved East Africans survived Middle Passages via land and sea, their arrival in Iran was marked by a forced visibility vis-à-vis their enslavement. The racialization of East Africans as exclusively siyah , or “Black...

..., and ancient Iranian history was reframed entirely. Iranians began to adopt an exclusively US-centric understanding of enslavement and its legacies, as well as embracing a nationalist Aryan myth and eliding any reference to Iranian enslavement or Black Iranians on a broad scale in urban centers. This chapter...

... Chapter 6 identifies the writings of enslaving families and their descendants as its own specific narrative genre that blurs experiences of enslavement with ideals of benevolence divorced from racist attitudes. This chapter argues that this particular historical genre of distortion...

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... Chapter 2 argues that the term khanevadeh , or “family,” did not carry connotations of intimacy and instead would be better translated as “household.” Piecing together moments from the lives of both free and enslaved Black peoples in Iran during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

... The introduction examines the language and literature around race and enslavement in the Middle East and argues that the history of enslavement and race in Iran has not been adequately studied or taken seriously. The introduction examines archival practices around enslavement within and outside...