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Sept 8-9, I’ll be participating in the #ScholarStrike. Here’s a thread of articles that touch on race, racialization, and/or blackness outside of the U.S., primarily in the MENA region
This article by Al-Monitor gives a brief history of the African diaspora in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.
Afro-Turks join global outcry over George Floyd killing http://almon.co/3dby via @AlMonitor
Afro-Turks join global outcry over George Floyd killing http://almon.co/3dby via @AlMonitor
Sulaiman Addonia, In Search of Beauty: Blackness as a Poem in Saudi Arabia: https://granta.com/in-search-of-beauty/
Blackness on the Iranian Periphery: Ethnicity, Language, and Nation in Bashu, the Little Stranger https://ajammc.com/2015/09/23/blackness-on-the-iranian-periphery/ via @ajammc
This latest article from SceneArabia also features words from @faisalaxc!
Nation Building and Legacies of Slavery: The Intersections of Being Black and Arab in the Gulf https://scenearabia.com/Life/The-Intersections-of-Being-Black-and-Arab-in-the-Gulf via @SceneArabia
Nation Building and Legacies of Slavery: The Intersections of Being Black and Arab in the Gulf https://scenearabia.com/Life/The-Intersections-of-Being-Black-and-Arab-in-the-Gulf via @SceneArabia
. @beetasays is writing cutting edge research on the African diaspora in Iran. Here's some of her latest work. Also check out @BlackIranians.
Picturing the Other: Race and Afro-Iranians in Documentary Photography https://ajammc.com/2015/07/20/picturing-them-vs-us-race-and-afro-iranians-in-documentary-photography/ via @ajammc
Picturing the Other: Race and Afro-Iranians in Documentary Photography https://ajammc.com/2015/07/20/picturing-them-vs-us-race-and-afro-iranians-in-documentary-photography/ via @ajammc
. @TunayAltay1's article explores representations of Black people in Turkish media & there's a bibliography below the article for further reading!
Is there really no anti-Black racism in #Turkey? http://bianet.org/english/people/226799-is-there-really-no-anti-black-racism-in-turkey
Is there really no anti-Black racism in #Turkey? http://bianet.org/english/people/226799-is-there-really-no-anti-black-racism-in-turkey
Anti-Blackness in the Arab World and the Violence That Doesn’t Get a Hashtag https://scenearabia.com/Life/Arab-Anti-Blackness-Racism-and-the-Violence-that-Doesn-t-Get-A-Hashtag# via @SceneArabia
The @AjamMC podcast has tons of teaching material and there's great content such as Ajam Podcast #7: The Limits of Whiteness w/ @nedasoc. Dr. Maghbouleh's research has been groundbreaking in many spaces. https://ajammc.com/2018/12/16/ajam-podcast-7-limits-of-whiteness/
Another piece on #AfroTurks on the politics of polarization, the ambiguities of the word "zenci", and the Afro Turk Association by @MikeJFerg.
White Turks, Black Turks, and Negroes: The Politics of Polarization https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/28868 via
@jadaliyya
White Turks, Black Turks, and Negroes: The Politics of Polarization https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/28868 via
@jadaliyya
“According to historians’ estimates, they were brought to Abkhazia in XVII by the local Count Sharvashidze, who purchased them at a slave market in Istanbul to work the citrus plantations.”
The Tale of Afro-Abkhazians https://www.georgianjournal.ge/discover-georgia/29876-the-tale-of-afro-abkhazians.html
The Tale of Afro-Abkhazians https://www.georgianjournal.ge/discover-georgia/29876-the-tale-of-afro-abkhazians.html
We also have to think beyond land as the place for race, racialization, and blackness. As @blacklikewho reminded us a few weeks ago in a talk, we need to think through "black liquidity."
White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean https://thedisorderofthings.com/2017/06/07/white-innocence-in-the-black-mediterranean/ via @wordpressdotcom
White Innocence in the Black Mediterranean https://thedisorderofthings.com/2017/06/07/white-innocence-in-the-black-mediterranean/ via @wordpressdotcom
You can listen to @RachelSchine’s amazing talk on #Race and #IslamicHistory here. https://anchor.fm/bottled-petrichor/episodes/E9_Race-and-Islamic-History_Dr--Rachel-Schine-eete0i
Fun fact: we're both giving a talk for MELA's Social Justice Lecture series, which in many ways intersects with #ScholarStrike . You can find out more here: https://twitter.com/MENALibAHS/status/1300794446032916480?s=20
There's also forthcoming work by Taylor M. Moore who's not on here. Below, I've crudely posted a screenshot (academic citations are long!) of one of her articles. Her website is: https://www.taylor-m-moore.com/
