Whiteness as an Act of Belonging: White Turks Phenomenon in the post 9/11 World
Turks, along with other people of the Middle East, retain a claim to being “Caucasian”. Technically white, Turks do not fit neatly into Western racial categories especially after 9/11, and with the increasing normalization of racist discourses in Western politics, their assumed religious and geogra...
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Turks, along with other people of the Middle East, retain a claim to being “Caucasian”. Technically white, Turks do not fit neatly into Western racial categories especially after 9/11, and with the increasing normalization of racist discourses in Western politics, their assumed religious and geographical identities categorise “secular” Turks along with their Muslim “others” and, crucially, suggest a “non-white” status. In this context, for Turks who explicitly refuse to be presented along with “Islamists”, “whiteness” becomes an act of belonging to “the West” (instead of the East, to “the civilised world” instead of the world of terrorism). The White Turks phenomenon does not only reveal the fluidity of racial categories, it also helps question the meaning of resistance and racial identification “from below”. In dealing with their insecurities with their place in the world, White Turks fall short of leading towards a radical democratic politics.
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| spelling | doaj-art-ee85c9ca4ac54020bf069056b6fa58f32025-08-20T03:06:28ZengMilano University PressGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation2283-79492017-07-012Whiteness as an Act of Belonging: White Turks Phenomenon in the post 9/11 WorldIlgin Yorukoglu 0City University of New York Turks, along with other people of the Middle East, retain a claim to being “Caucasian”. Technically white, Turks do not fit neatly into Western racial categories especially after 9/11, and with the increasing normalization of racist discourses in Western politics, their assumed religious and geographical identities categorise “secular” Turks along with their Muslim “others” and, crucially, suggest a “non-white” status. In this context, for Turks who explicitly refuse to be presented along with “Islamists”, “whiteness” becomes an act of belonging to “the West” (instead of the East, to “the civilised world” instead of the world of terrorism). The White Turks phenomenon does not only reveal the fluidity of racial categories, it also helps question the meaning of resistance and racial identification “from below”. In dealing with their insecurities with their place in the world, White Turks fall short of leading towards a radical democratic politics. https://ojs-unimi-test.4science.cloud/index.php/glocalism/article/view/21183WhitenessWhite TurksRaceTurkish CulturePost 9/11 |
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| title | Whiteness as an Act of Belonging: White Turks Phenomenon in the post 9/11 World |
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| title_short | Whiteness as an Act of Belonging: White Turks Phenomenon in the post 9/11 World |
| title_sort | whiteness as an act of belonging white turks phenomenon in the post 9 11 world |
| topic | Whiteness White Turks Race Turkish Culture Post 9/11 |
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