Remembering the Tatas

Download or read book Remembering the Tatas written by Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.