South Carolina's Turkish People: A History and Ethnology

The story of misunderstood immigrants and their struggle to gain recognition and acceptance in the rural South

Despite its reputation as a melting pot of ethnicities and races, the United States has a well-documented history of immigrants who have struggled through isolation, segregation, discrimination, oppression, and assimilation. South Carolina is home to one such group—known historically and derisively as "the Turks"—which can trace its oral history back to Joseph Benenhaley, an Ottoman...