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Begüm Adalet

Begüm Adalet

Begüm Adalet is a political theorist with interests in anticolonial thought, transnationalism, the Cold War, and the built environment. She is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University and the author of Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey (Stanford University Press, 2018). icon

James Baldwin, Here and Elsewhere

By Begüm Adalet

How the United States terrorizes the rest of the world, Baldwin realized abroad, echoed how it terrorized its inhabitants at home.

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