A Late-19th/Early-20th-Century Rebuttal of Views on Race and Slavery in Morocco

This presentation was given by Jonathan Brown, Professor and Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, on April 18, 2024 at the 14th Illinois EU Studies Conference ("Paradigms of Racialization: Alternative Sources"). The conference program can be found at europe.illinoi.... This conference was part of a multi-year project aimed at deprovincializing the perspective provided by Critical Race Theory and testing its assumptions within the multiracial and multicultural context of the pre-modern and postmodern Mediterranean, before and after the emergence of racial regimes. For more information on the project, please visit publish.illino....
Organizing / scientific committee: Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, University Paris 8; Markian Dobczansky, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Heather Duncan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Amanda Smith, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Sponsors: Albertine Foundation; European Union Center at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; TransCrit at University Paris 8; Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) at University of Michigan.