E129 Zavier Wingham: The Ottoman Empire, race & slavery (1840-1914‪)‬ Surviving Society Productions

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