Becoming the 'Abid: lives and social origins in Southern Tunisia

Contenu

Titre

Becoming the 'Abid: lives and social origins in Southern Tunisia

Créateur

Scaglioni, Marta Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

2020

Résumé

In 2011, after a popular uprising overthrew President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, several issues came to the fore in Tunisia: among them was racism targeting "black" individuals. The few black rights organizations that emerged managed to obtain passage of a law punishing racist acts and words in October 2019. This historic step stems from Tunisia’s far-seeing policy concerning human and civil rights. In 1846, Tunisia was the first country in the Ottoman Empire and the Middle Eastern world to abolish slavery and the slave trade. Becoming the 'Abid addresses 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 limited to phenotype; instead, it distances itself from Western racial concepts and highlights how processes of racialization are contextual, processual, and changing constructions.

Editeur

Ledizioni Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Place

Milano

Langue

eng

ISBN

978-88-552-6199-9

uri

http://digital.casalini.it/9788855261999

Scaglioni, Marta, “Becoming the 'Abid: lives and social origins in Southern Tunisia”, Ledizioni, 2020, bibliographie, consulté le 8 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/2514