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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies 1
- Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America 22
- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies 53
- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border 95
- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship 116
- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 144
- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism 175
- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush 195
- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation 218
- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science 248
- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture 267
- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism 294
- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency 314
- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices 345
- Moralism as Antipolitics 368
- Works Cited 393
- Contributors 417
- Index 421
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies 1
- Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America 22
- Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies 53
- Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border 95
- Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship 116
- Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation 144
- The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism 175
- The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush 195
- Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation 218
- Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science 248
- A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture 267
- From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism 294
- Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency 314
- Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices 345
- Moralism as Antipolitics 368
- Works Cited 393
- Contributors 417
- Index 421