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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. -- Provided by publisher

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Author

Murat Ergin

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004324336

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social_sciences