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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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Critical Social Sciences
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.