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Beeta Baghoolizadeh Associate Research Scholar, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University , US Email: bb2370@princeton.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 1618–1642, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad383
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Beeta Baghoolizadeh, Seeing Black America in Iran, The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 1618–1642, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad383
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From the 1960s onwards, many Iranians closely followed Black American protests during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements in the United States. This period proved pivotal for Iranian understandings of race, where intellectuals, revolutionaries, and those in media would use US-centric histories of enslavement, racism, and Black Americans to erase nineteenth-century histories of enslavement and racism in Iran, tacitly displacing the existence of Black Iranians across the national landscape. Black American Muslims, particularly Malcolm X, emerged as the ideal form of Blackness. After the 1979 revolution, non-Black Iranians and the Iranian government would continue this focus on US-based racism through an official narrative that repeatedly defined racism as a US-only problem, ultimately cementing the erasures around histories of enslavement and Black Iranians that began with abolition in 1929. Through an analysis of speeches, memoirs, poetry, newspaper articles, photography, and other illustrated media, this article weaves together vignettes to demonstrate how the pervasiveness of racial hierarchies fashioned around US histories came to shift an Iranian vocabulary and conceptualization of race. This article traces the changes in racial discourse during the 1960s and 1970s, the 1979 revolution, and the Iran-Iraq War from an Iranian perspective.
1970s, 1960s, African Americans, Iran, Islam, Revolution
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