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"I Remember the Jews": Memory, Dual Marginality, and Belonging as Haratin in 20th- Century Morocco

  • Building in Old Riyadh
  • Event Date: 2019-10-30
  • Event Start Time: 12:00 PM
  • Event Location: The Bildner Center, 12 College Ave

This talk, given by Moyagaye Bedward, Rutgers PhD candidate, Department of History, will explore how the Haratin, a community marginalized because of its putative slave history, engages in memory and cultural preservation as means of cultivating a sense of local and national belonging in Morocco. Specifically, it will examine how Haratin preservation of local Jewish history has contributed to combating notions that the Haratin are not indigenous to Morocco and not truly “African.”