{"product_id":"is-the-turk-a-white-man-race-and-modernity-in-the-making-of-turkish-identity-9789004324336","title":"Is the Turk a White Man? : Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\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 İnan 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":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210689929559,"sku":"9789004324336","price":132.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/is-the-turk-a-white-man-race-and-modernity-in-the-making-of-turkish-identity-9789004324336","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}