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Music and Race Politics in the Iranian Persian Gulf: Shanbehzadeh and “Bandari” - Ajam Media Collective
The essentialization of Southern Iranian music creates certain roles that Iranian minorities are required to fill in order to have a place in mainstream cultural discourse. In this context, the dark-skinned Afro-Iranian is stripped of any cultural diversity and is sambo-ified to become a happy, carefree people whose lack of representation in society is justified by his or her frivolity.View Post
Kamyar Jarahzadeh