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Author(s): Marta Scaglioni
ISBN(s): 9788855261975, 8855261975
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 5.38 MB
Year: 2020
Language: english
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ISBN 10:   8855261999 

ISBN 13: 9788855261999

Author: Marta Scaglioni

In 2011, after the popular uprising overthrew former President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, in Tunisia several issues came to the fore: among them, racism targeting “black” individuals. Few black rights associations emerged, and their struggle culminated in the promulgation of a law punishing racist acts and words in October 2019. The step is historical, and stems from Tunisia’s foreseeing policy concerning human and civil rights. In 1846, Tunisia was the first country to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the Ottoman Empire and in the Middle Eastern world. Becoming the ‘Abid addresses the issue of the legacy of slavery in a southern Tunisian governorate, where racism towards “black” individuals is still a painful experience and takes the form of professional, educational, and marital discrimination. Referring to the concept of “structural inequality”, the book goes beyond the simplistic idea that race is only related to phenotype, taking distance from the Western racial concepts, and highlights how processes of racialization are contextual, processual, and changing constructions.

Table of contents: 

PART ONE

1. Notions and debates about slavery and race in Africa and in the

Ottoman Empire

African slaveries

Islamic slaveries

Race in North Africa

Ottoman and Tunisian slavery

2. Abolition in Muslim countries and in Tunisia

Muslim abolitionism

Abolition and “collective manumission”

Tunisia’s early abolition

What happened to freed slaves?

nothing’

PART TWO

Becoming the Abid

3. Freeing the ‘abid

Gosbah and the ‘Abid

People without an Arab origin

Becoming the ‘Abid

The seven brothers, or the ‘Abid Ghbonton’s foundation story From slavery to wala’

4. Marrying the abid

The origin of “blackness”

‘Abid Ghbonton marriages and the tendency to isogamy

Interracial marriages

Hypo- and hyper-descent

Race-evasion strategies

5. Working as ‘abid

Mohammed and Sana

Menial jobs

Sidi Bilal’s legacy

Stayed

Tayfa, the prestige of the ‘Abid

Tayfa, the modesty of the ‘Abid

Generational gaps

6. Today’s ‘abid

Babuch, the gold of the sea

Djerba, the land of milk and honey

We don’t know how to do harga

2016 demonstrations

7. Post 2011 activism

The ‘Abid Ghbonton and black rights activists

The category of “black” Tunisians

The nation-building process

The homogenisation of the category of “black” Tunisians

After 2011: rise and development of black rights activism

Black rights activists’ discourse

Recent developments

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