Gender at the Intersection of Racialization, Inequality, and Disability in Anbar Otin’s Writing

Racializing locals has been one of the main characteristics of Russian and Soviet imperial modernity. Anbar Otin (1870–1915) was among the thinkers and writers in Turkistan’s Muslim society engaging with such issues. In Risolai Falsafai Siyohon (The Treatise on the Philosophy of the Blacks) she treats siyohon (blacks) as a color employed as a social metaphor and social position used in reference to the ordinary people of Turkestan, their frustrated hopes, and their pain. In the work, Anbar indi- cates that the word siyohon (qoralar -blackness) has been used to racialize, discrim- inate against, and denigrate Turkestan’s peoples. According to Anbar, it also carries a positive connotation as in “inner and physical beauty.” In this paper, I analyze the writing of Anbar in relation to her understanding of racialization, inequality, religion, gender, and disability, situating Anbar’s experience within broader discussions of such topics in the Central Asian context.

Author

• Abdugafurova, Donohon

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.30965/22142290-bja10030

Keyword

• modernity
• blackness
• darkness
• religion
• Turkestan
• racialization
• gender

Date created

• 2022

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•  https://brill.com/view/journals/caa/caa-overview.xml

Type of Work

• Article

Source

• 22142290-bja10030

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• All rights reserved

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• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Central Asian Affairs Journal

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/x633f189x

In Collection:

• Central Asian Affairs

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