Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-Up Democracy on the Border

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