"Is the Turk a White Man?": Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (590 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1608468380 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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His research interests include nationalism, race, ethnicity, cultural boundaries, and death.. About the AuthorMurat Ergin, Ph.D. (2005), University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Koç University
His research interests include nationalism, race, ethnicity, cultural boundaries, and death.. (2005), University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Koç University. Murat Ergin, Ph.D
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.