Is the Turk a white man? : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity /
Ergin, Murat, 1977-
Is the Turk a white man? : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity / by Murat Ergin. - 1 online resource. - Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 95 . - Studies in Critical Social Sciences 95. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105. .
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.
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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.
9789004330559
10.1163/9789004330559 DOI
2016045154
Ethnicity--Turkey.
Ethnology--Turkey.
Group identity--Turkey.
Turks--Ethnic identity.
Turks--Race identity.
Turkey--Ethnic relations.
Turkey--Race relations.
DR434
305.894/35
Is the Turk a white man? : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity / by Murat Ergin. - 1 online resource. - Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 95 . - Studies in Critical Social Sciences 95. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2017-I, ISBN: 9789004328105. .
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004330559
10.1163/9789004330559 DOI
2016045154
Ethnicity--Turkey.
Ethnology--Turkey.
Group identity--Turkey.
Turks--Ethnic identity.
Turks--Race identity.
Turkey--Ethnic relations.
Turkey--Race relations.
DR434
305.894/35