"Is the Turk a White Man?"

"Is the Turk a White Man?" Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity - Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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Publisher's Synopsis

In 1909, US courts set out to decide “whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalized as a white person." Turkish elites had already undertaken to portray the Turks as the historic source of Western civilization, white racial stock, and human language. Examining this interaction between global racial discourses and local responses, Ergin recentres Turkish modernization on imaginings of race.

Book information

ISBN: 9781608468386
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 288
Weight: 400g
Height: 155mm
Width: 230mm
Spine width: 16mm