Enforced In/Visibility: Beeta Baghoolizadeh on Racial Slavery and Historical Memory in Iran

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh.  Dr. Baghoolizadeh is a historian and an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies.  Gossett speaks with Dr. Baghoolizadeh about her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024) and how Iranian and Persian Gulf social and political life have been both shaped by racial slavery and  the disavowal of it's history, as well as the ways in which its afterlife reverberates now.