| Is the Turk a White Man?: Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity Contributor(s): Ergin, Murat (Author) |
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ISBN: 1608468380 ISBN-13: 9781608468386 Publisher: Haymarket Books OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory - History | Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire |
| Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Turkey |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
