LEADER 02780nam 2200565 450 001 9910163124303321 005 20190826145055.0 010 $a90-04-33055-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004330559 035 $a(CKB)3710000000865091 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4790402 035 $a 2016045154 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004330559 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000865091 100 $a20160929d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aIs the Turk a white man? $erace and modernity in the making of Turkish identity /$fby Murat Ergin 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (286 pages) $ccolor illustrations 225 0 $aStudies in critical social sciences ;$vv. 95 311 $a90-04-32433-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary 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. 330 $aIn 1909, the US Circuit Court in Cincinnati set out to decide ?whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person?; the New York Times article on the decision, discussing the question of Turks? whiteness, was cheekily entitled ?Is the Turk a White Man?? Within a few decades, having understood the importance of this question for their modernization efforts, Turkish elites had already started a fantastic scientific mobilization to position the Turks in world history as the generators of Western civilization, the creators of human language, and the forgotten source of white racial stock. In this book, Murat Ergin examines how race figures into Turkish modernization in a process of interaction between global racial discourses and local responses. 410 0$aStudies in Critical Social Sciences$v95. 606 $aEthnicity$zTurkey 606 $aEthnology$zTurkey 606 $aGroup identity$zTurkey 606 $aTurks$xEthnic identity 606 $aTurks$xRace identity 607 $aTurkey$xEthnic relations 607 $aTurkey$xRace relations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEthnicity 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aGroup identity 615 0$aTurks$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aTurks$xRace identity. 676 $a305.894/35 700 $aErgin$b Murat$f1977-$0957857 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163124303321 996 $aIs the Turk a white man$92170142 997 $aUNINA