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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ergin, Murat (1977-....)
Titre(s) : Is the Turk a white man? [Texte imprimé] : race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity / by Murat Ergin
Publication : Leiden : Brill, 2017
Description matérielle : vi, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Collection : Studies in critical social sciences, ISSN 1573-4234 ; Volume 95
Lien à la collection : Studies in critical social sciences
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index
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.
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Race and modernity in the making of Turkish identity
Sujet(s) : Ethnicité -- Turquie -- Histoire
Identité collective -- Turquie -- Histoire
Relations interethniques -- Turquie -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004324336. - ISBN 900432433X. - ISBN 9789004330559 (erroné) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45248291z
Notice n° :
FRBNF45248291
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