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The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran

Feb 2
2026
1:00pm - 2:30pm
On Campus Event - Old Library, Quita Woodward Room, Old Library
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Beeta Baghoolizadeh is an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. She is the author of The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, 2024), which examines race, gender, media, and visuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran. The Color Black has received the Wesley-Logan Book Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association (AHA), the Paul E. Lovejoy Book Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery, and the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press.

Audience: Public
Type(s): Lecture
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Pardis Dabashi

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