Is the Turk a white man? : : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity / / by Murat Ergin.
In 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person”; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks’ whiteness, was cheekily entitled “Is the Turk a White Man?” Within a few decades, having und...
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Ergin, Murat, 1977- Is the Turk a white man? : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity / by Murat Ergin. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016. 1 online resource (286 pages) : color illustrations. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 95 Includes bibliographical references and index. Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Why This Book Should Not Have Been Written -- The Republican Conversion Narrative -- Encounters with the “West” -- Race in Early Republican Turkey -- Close Encounters and Racial Discourses -- Race in Contemporary Turkey -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. In 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person”; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks’ whiteness, was cheekily entitled “Is the Turk a White Man?” Within a few decades, having understood the importance of this question for their modernization efforts, Turkish elites had already started a fantastic scientific mobilization to position the Turks in world history as the generators of Western civilization, the creators of human language, and the forgotten source of white racial stock. In this book, Murat Ergin examines how race figures into Turkish modernization in a process of interaction between global racial discourses and local responses. Ethnicity Turkey. Ethnology Turkey. Group identity Turkey. Turks Ethnic identity. Turks Race identity. Turkey Ethnic relations. Turkey Race relations. 90-04-32433-X Studies in Critical Social Sciences 95. |
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