"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 paperback 2016

3 editions

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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 langu...

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