Is the Turk a white man? : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity / by Murat Ergin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ergin, Murat, 1977- author.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Turkey.

Ethnicity.

Ethnology--Turkey.

Ethnology.

Race relations.

Turks.

Turks--Ethnic identity.

Group identity.

Turkey.

Group identity--Turkey.

Turks--Race identity.

Turkey--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Turkey--Race relations.

Physical Description:

vi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ergin, Murat, 1977- author. Is the Turk a white man?

ISBN:

9789004324336

900432433X

OCLC:

953708971

Publisher Number:

99969533204