{"product_id":"is-the-turk-a-white-man-race-and-modernity-in-the-making-of-turkish-identity-9781608468386","title":"'is The Turk A White Man?': Race and Modernity in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1909, US courts set out to decide whether a Turkish citizen shall be naturalised 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 modernisation on imaginings of race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\t INTRODUCTION\t  CHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN\t Race and the Turkish Case\t Why Care About the Turkish Case?\t The West = Theory; The Rest = “Mere” Case\t Cases and National Boundaries\t  CHAPTER 2: THE REPUBLICAN CONVERSION NARRATIVE\t Rewriting History\t  CHAPTER 3: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE “WEST”\t Becoming White\t The Ghosts of the Past: Ottoman Modernization and Encounters with the West\t The Ottoman Interest in Race\t Ziya Gökalp: The Official Ideologue of the Republic?\t The Formation of the “Terrible Turk”: Western Perceptions\t The Problem of Periodization\t  CHAPTER 4: RACE IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEY\t Racial Vocabularies\t Mermaids, Fish, Humans: The Taxonomic Discourse\t Biometric Mobilization to Protect and Improve the Race\t Anthropometric Mobilization to “Discover” the Turkish Race\t  CHAPTER 5: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND RACIAL DISCOURSES\t Intellectual Exchange and Historical Contingency\t The University Reform and Émigré Scholars\t Conflicting Loyalties: Expertise in the Service of Local and Universal Agendas\t Afet Inan and Eugène Pittard: Personal Interaction in Search of Anthropometric Essences\t  CHAPTER 6: RACE IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY\t Race, and Ethnicity, and Nation\t Race in Contemporary Turkey\t  CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION\t  BIBLIOGRAPHY\t INDEX","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020111446359,"sku":"9781608468386","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781608468386.jpg?v=1750782450","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/is-the-turk-a-white-man-race-and-modernity-in-the-making-of-turkish-identity-9781608468386","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}