Beeta Baghoolizadeh
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Beeta Baghoolizadeh (PhD, History, University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University's Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Her book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024) examines questions concerning race, religion, memory, and visuality and has won the Scholars of Color First Book Award at Duke University Press. Beeta's scholarship is featured in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, and American Historical Review (AHR). |
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"Seeing Black America in Iran,” American Historical Review (2023) 128 (4): 1618-1642.
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From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem: Examining Kurdizadeh’s ‘Layla Bigufta,’ and Blackness in late twentieth-century Iran,” Journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 441-454.
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“The Myths of Haji Firuz: the Racist Contours of the Iranian Minstrel,” Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, (Spring 2021) Issue 10.1. |
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