02747nam 2200553 450 991080969270332120230808195432.090-04-33055-010.1163/9789004330559(CKB)3710000000865091(MiAaPQ)EBC4790402 2016045154(nllekb)BRILL9789004330559(EXLCZ)99371000000086509120160929d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierIs the Turk a white man? race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity /by Murat ErginLeiden ;Boston :Brill,2016.1 online resource (286 pages) color illustrationsStudies in critical social sciences ;v. 9590-04-32433-X 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.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.Studies in Critical Social Sciences95.EthnicityTurkeyEthnologyTurkeyGroup identityTurkeyTurksEthnic identityTurksRace identityTurkeyEthnic relationsTurkeyRace relationsEthnicityEthnologyGroup identityTurksEthnic identity.TurksRace identity.305.894/35Ergin Murat1977-1602215NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910809692703321Is the Turk a white man3926112UNINA