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‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities

Gokay

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Despite the fact that living together in the same geographical space has created many similarities for Turkey and Greece over the centuries, both sides are keen to identify, even exaggerate, the differences between them and other ‘inferiors’. This article looks at the role of cultural and ‘scientific’ racism(s) in the formation of Turkish and Greek national identities. Both Turkish and Greek identities have been built on European-ness at the same time as Greekness and Turkishness. Therefore, the national identities in Turkey and Greece are defined within the context of mainstream Eurocentrism, and in that sense the same White European race-ism is shared as the essential aspect of Greek and Turkish national characteristics.

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Gokay, & Hamourtziadou, L. (2016). ‘Whiter than White’: Race and Otherness in Turkish and Greek National Identities. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 18(2), 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141590

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 28, 2016
Online Publication Date Feb 12, 2016
Publication Date Mar 3, 2016
Publicly Available Date May 26, 2023
Journal Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies
Print ISSN 1944-8953
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 18
Issue 2
Pages 177-189
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141590
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1080/19448953.2016.1141590

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