'is The Turk A White Man?'

Murat Ergin, Ph.D. (2005), University of Minnesota, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Koç University. His research interests include nationalism, race, ethnicity, cultural boundaries, and death.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 1: WHY THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTENRace and the Turkish CaseWhy Care About the Turkish Case?The West = Theory; The Rest = “Mere” CaseCases and National BoundariesCHAPTER 2: THE REPUBLICAN CONVERSION NARRATIVERewriting HistoryCHAPTER 3: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE “WEST”Becoming WhiteThe Ghosts of the Past: Ottoman Modernization and Encounters with the WestThe Ottoman Interest in RaceZiya Gökalp: The Official Ideologue of the Republic?The Formation of the “Terrible Turk”: Western PerceptionsThe Problem of PeriodizationCHAPTER 4: RACE IN EARLY REPUBLICAN TURKEYRacial VocabulariesMermaids, Fish, Humans: The Taxonomic DiscourseBiometric Mobilization to Protect and Improve the RaceAnthropometric Mobilization to “Discover” the Turkish RaceCHAPTER 5: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND RACIAL DISCOURSESIntellectual Exchange and Historical ContingencyThe University Reform and Émigré ScholarsConflicting Loyalties: Expertise in the Service of Local and Universal AgendasAfet Inan and Eugène Pittard: Personal Interaction in Search of Anthropometric EssencesCHAPTER 6: RACE IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEYRace, and Ethnicity, and NationRace in Contemporary TurkeyCHAPTER 7: CONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX