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From:Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 58, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedNancy Bisaha. Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 310 pp. index. map. chron. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 0-8122-3806-0. One of the...
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From:Comparative Drama (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn early June 1613, Queen Anne made a westward progress, stopping for a few days in Bristol. Part of the entertainment that greeted her was a sea battle, allegedly between Christian and Turkish forces. In some ways this...
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From:American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThere is a growing body of urban research and theory on the existence and persistence of concentration areas. Segregation takes many forms in cities. On one end of the spectrum, we discern ghettos (where members of the...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper, the settlement patterns of Turks and Moroccans in Brussels will be compared with the patterns of the same groups in Amsterdam. It will be argued that housing market variables explain a lot of the...
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From:Insight Turkey (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTurkish media frequently employ the term "White Turks" to describe the Turkish cultural elite. Although Turks are unfamiliar with American-style racial divides, the terms "black" and "white" are widely used to...
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From:German Politics and Society (Vol. 24, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines how German Turks employ the German Jewish trope to establish an analogous discourse for their own position in German society. Drawing on the literature on immigrant incorporation, we argue that...
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From:CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn her article "Introduction to and Selected Bibliography of English-language Books about Turks and Turkey" presents a selected bibliography of work by Western travelers, writers, scholars, and journalists. Fictional...
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From:Insight Turkey (Vol. 15, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedDo perceptions of Muslim communities differ among receiving European societies? Are attitudes towards Euro-Turks more critical than other groups? Do Euro-Turks feel marginalized and recognize social distance from the...
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From:International Migration Review (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the development of Germany's Turkish organizations since 1961. These have failed to mobilize Germany's Turks around shared ethnocultural grievances against the host society. A transnational...
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From:Anthropology of the Middle East (Vol. 8, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines how Turks returning from Germany to Turkey self-fashion as 'orderly neighbours'. By maintaining aesthetically pleasing homes and gardens, keeping public spaces clean, and obeying rules and laws in...
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From:The Modern Language Review (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe first part of the article considers some of the sociological insights yielded by the literary and filmic representations of second-generation Turks in the Federal Republic particularly with regard to problems of...
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From:Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs (Vol. 127, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe authors conducted 3 studies in which Turkish and other adolescents in the Netherlands completed questionnaires that addressed the importance of collectivist cultural values for achievement motivation and educational...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 69, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN ONE OF the more famous slave narratives--in part because it was the first published account by a woman--Bermuda-born Mary Prince reported that "my master sent me away to Turk's Island. I was not permitted to see my...
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From:Science (Vol. 262, Issue 5136) Peer-ReviewedTurks in Germany are often blocked from science and technical careers due to discrimination, which is getting worse as the German economy deteriorates. Although discrimination in German is similar in many respects to...
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From:German Politics and Society (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTurks, Jews, and German Responsibility An immigration dilemma has confronted the Federal Republic of Germany since the early 1970s. Postwar labor migrants from predominantly Muslim countries in the Mediterranean...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIN 1911, AHMET EMIN YALMAN, a recently enrolled student at Columbia University decided to take a brief holiday to a coastal town in Maine. The reception accorded to Yalman and a friend who had accompanied him was less...
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From:Journal of World History (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCultural Hierarchy in Sixteenth-Century Europe: The Ottomans and Mexicans. By CARINA L. JOHNSON. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 340 pp. $99.00 (cloth). Carina Johnson's new book analyzes how the...
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From:Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society (Vol. 5, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLocal populations in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, and to a lesser degree in the Czech Republic, experienced much interaction with Muslims throughout the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the...
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From:Currents in Theology and Mission (Vol. 34, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIt has been said that "war against the Turks formed the colorful background of the Reformation." (1) However, most studies of Martin Luther relegate his extensive writings and comments regarding the Turks and Islam to...
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From:Insight Turkey (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIt has become a conventional approach to look at the impact of the political institutions to understand immigrant organizing patterns in the receiving countries. The underlying assumption in this process is that the...