"is the Turk a White Man?": Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity by Murat Ergin

"is the Turk a White Man?": Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity

Murat Ergin

288 pages hardcover 2016

3 editions

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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 th...

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