Surviving Society

Zavier joined us to discuss his ongoing research on how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race, slavery, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Useful links: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/departments/meis/people/students/zavier-wingham.html https://twitter.com/zwingham/status/1303346717715247109 https://twitter.com/AjamMC/status/1267806300618006528 https://csalateral.org/forum/cultural-constructions-race-racism-middle-east-north-africa-southwest-asia-mena-swana/myths-haji-firuz-racist-contours-iranian-minstrel-baghoolizadeh/#fn-7891-4 https://csalateral.org/forum/cultural-constructions-race-racism-middle-east-north-africa-southwest-asia-mena-swana/opposing-spectacle-blackness-arap-baci-kalfa-dad-african-presence-turkey-willoughby/#fn-7954-6