My current book project The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran draws on visual, textual, and spatial sources to examine how the term siyah or "black" came to take on different meanings throughout each phase of abolition, emancipation, and the lasting legacies of enslavement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My research is concerned with questions of memory and the visuality of Blackness in Iran and the broader region.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The Myths of Haji Firuz: the Racist Contours of the Iranian Minstrel,” Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.
ترجمه به زبان فارسی : "افسانه های حاجی فیروز: نمودهای نژادپرستانه ی تخت حوضی ایرانی"، لترال، ژورنال موسسهی فرهنگ شناسی
“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 (CSSAAME). |
As the Resident Historian for the Collective for Black Iranians, I work with talented artists to illustrate historical research on Black life in Iran.
"Introduction to the Art of Black Africa" poster, digitized image from the Ajam Digital Archive.
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