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""Colorblind is a provocative examination of how race is conceptualized in the cultural, historical, and intellectual production of Iran and its diaspora. Lucid and comprehensive, this book confronts major tensions in Iranian Studies and offers a synthesizing intervention—one that scholars will debate and build on for years to come.""—Neda Maghbouleh, University of British Columbia ""Colorblind charts exciting new territory in the cultural history of race and slavery in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Drawing on literature, cinema, folklore, and ethnography, it exposes the roots of Iran's imagined racial exceptionalism.""—Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine ""Amy Motlagh brilliantly considers how Iranian diaspora identity has emerged within an American racial landscape whose entanglements she examines with critical rigor and clarity. Colorblind expands readers' understanding and appreciation of the circulation of ideas about blackness, and challenges scholars to rethink the ways that national identity is always a racial project."" —Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M University

""Colorblind charts exciting new territory in the cultural history of race and slavery in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Drawing on literature, cinema, folklore, and ethnography, it exposes the roots of Iran's imagined racial exceptionalism.""--Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine ""Colorblind is a provocative examination of how race is conceptualized in the cultural, historical, and intellectual production of Iran and its diaspora. Lucid and comprehensive, this book confronts major tensions in Iranian Studies and offers a synthesizing intervention--one that scholars will debate and build on for years to come.""--Neda Maghbouleh, University of British Columbia ""Amy Motlagh brilliantly considers how Iranian diaspora identity has emerged within an American racial landscape whose entanglements she examines with critical rigor and clarity. Colorblind expands readers' understanding and appreciation of the circulation of ideas about blackness, and challenges scholars to rethink the ways that national identity is always a racial project."" --Ira Dworkin, Texas A&M University

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Amy Motlagh is Associate Professor and Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Burying the Beloved: Marriage, Realism, and Reform in Modern Iran (Stanford, 2011).

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