BEETA BAGHOOLIZADEH
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Research and Publications

The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024)
Praise for The Color Black
In this pathbreaking study, Beeta Baghoolizadeh weaves together a social history of slavery in Iran; a feminist analysis of modern Iranian households and their racial underpinnings; a gendered reading of state policy on emancipation; and an intervention into the study of slavery and its afterlives. The Color Black is a tour de force of research and a beautiful and brilliant contribution to multiple fields.” — Sarah Gualtieri, author of Arab Routes: Pathways to Syrian California
Decentering the dominant lenses in Iranian studies, Beeta Baghoolizadeh advances a new understanding of Iran by showing how its modern construction of history was built upon the erasure of Black Iranians. Rigorously argued, ethically principled, and elegantly written, The Color Black is poised to be one of the most provocative and important new books in Iranian studies and Middle East studies.” — Neda Maghbouleh, author of The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
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Through an analysis of archival, visual, and spatial sources, Beeta Baghoolizadeh unearths an intentionally hidden history within both institutional spaces and collective memory. 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. The Color Black has been award the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press. 
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Articles

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 “Seeing Black America in Iran,” American Historical Review (2023) 128 (4): 1618-1642.
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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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  ترجمه به زبان فارسی :‌ "افسانه های حاجی فیروز: نمودهای نژادپرستانه ی تخت حوضی ایرانی"، لترال، ژورنال موسسه‌ی فرهنگ شناسی 

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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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Public Scholarship 

Select Podcasts
Episode 2.5 on the History in Focus: podcast presented by the American Historical Review, where I discuss my recent article, "Seeing Black America in Iran" 

​Episode 3 on the Story of Iran ​podcast: "Introduction to the Art of Black Africa" ​
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As the Resident Historian for the Collective for Black Iranians, I worked with talented artists to illustrate historical research on Black life in Iran. 
An Abyssinian eunuch from the Qajar court seated in the center of the frame.
A woman, Khyzran, embraces a young boy, Walladee, on a boat in the Persian Gulf.
A couple walks in the streets of old Tehran during the 19th century.
A young woman, Narges, enters the public bath while a slave trader waits to kidnap her.
Illustration of a Black woman from the Qajar era sitting on a chair.
Two Black women sitting under a pomegranate tree drinking tea.
​MERIP interview with Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda:
​"Writing Ourselves into Existence with the Collective for Black Iranians" 
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