Marta Scaglioni

Marta Scaglioni is a PhD Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and the University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy.

“She is not a ‘Abid”: blackness among slave descendants in southern Tunisia

Connected first by a slave-master relationship and now by geographical proximity, the ‘white’ and ‘black’ populations of Ghbonton, Tunisia have a complex relationship with each other.

By Marta Scaglioni

/ 14 Feb 2018

“She is not a ‘Abid”: blackness among slave descendants in southern Tunisia

Connected first by a slave-master relationship and now by geographical proximity, the ‘white’ and ‘black’ populations of Ghbonton, Tunisia have a complex relationship with each other.

By Marta Scaglioni

/ 14 Feb 2018

Emancipation and music: post-slavery among black Tunisians

In the south-eastern Tunisian region of Mednine, music represented a socially marginalised way for post-emancipation blacks to advance. Now younger generations want something different.

By Marta Scaglioni

/ 18 Jul 2016

Emancipation and music: post-slavery among black Tunisians

In the south-eastern Tunisian region of Mednine, music represented a socially marginalised way for post-emancipation blacks to advance. Now younger generations want something different.

By Marta Scaglioni

/ 18 Jul 2016