Books

The Order of Taste: Whiteness, Space, and Cosmopolitan America

Book manuscript under contract with the University of Georgia Press.

The Order of Taste traces how mid-twentieth-century segregation, redlining, urban renewal, and the making of White middle-class taste, continues to shape the boundaries of cosmopolitan life in American cities. It argues that inequality persists not only through exclusion, but through the managed incorporation of difference into cultural and economic life.

Making Do, Making Power: Everyday Survival, Migration, and the Architecture of Turkish Mass Politics

Book manuscript in preparation.

Turning to Turkey, this project asks how migration, informal survival strategies, and local organization become the building blocks of durable political power.

Book Chapter

Huseyin Zeyd Koytak. “The Cosmopolitan Paradox: Whitespaces and Taste in Post-War America.” In Whitespaces, eds. David L. Brunsma, Joong Won Kim, Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown, & Elizabeth Roberts. Under contract with Lexington Books.