Thread by @zwingham

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 almon.co/3dby via @AlMonitor

Sulaiman Addonia, In Search of Beauty: Blackness as a Poem in Saudi Arabia: granta.com/in-search-of-b…

Blackness on the Iranian Periphery: Ethnicity, Language, and Nation in Bashu, the Little Stranger ajammc.com/2015/09/23/bla… 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 scenearabia.com/Life/The-Inter… 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 ajammc.com/2015/07/20/pic… 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? bianet.org/english/people…

Anti-Blackness in the Arab World and the Violence That Doesn’t Get a Hashtag scenearabia.com/Life/Arab-Anti… 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. ajammc.com/2018/12/16/aja…

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 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 georgianjournal.ge/discover-georg…

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 thedisorderofthings.com/2017/06/07/whi… via @wordpressdotcom

You can listen to @RachelSchine’s amazing talk on #Race and #IslamicHistory here. anchor.fm/bottled-petric…

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: taylor-m-moore.com