"The editors of "Materializing Democracy" have a vision--an activist vision--that, combined with rigorous analysis and scholarship, imparts an unusual energy and excitement to this volume."--Priscilla Wald, author of "Constituting Americans: Cultural Anxiety and Narrative Form"

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Materializing Democracy and Other Political Fantasies / Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson
Tocqueville’s Democratic Thing; or, Aristocracy in America / Donald E. Pease
Legal Slaves and Civil Bodies / Joan Dayan
Mexicans in a Material World: From John Wayne’s The Alamo to Stand-up Democracy on the Border / Richard R. Flores
Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic Citizenship / Russ Castronovo
Uncle Sam Needs a Wife: Citizenship and Denegation / Lauren Berlant
The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism / Lisa Duggan
The Genealogy of a Democratic Crush / Chris Castiglia
Representative/Democracy: The Political Work of Countersymbolic Representation / Dana D. Nelson
Rethinking Space, Rethinking Rights: Literature, Law, and Science / Wai Chee Dimock
A Long Foreground: Re-Materializing the History of Native American Relations to Mass Culture / Michael Moon
From Center to Margin: Internationalism and the Origins of Black Feminism / Kevin Gaines
Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency / Christopher Newfield
Anti-Ideology: Education and Politics as Democratic Practices / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Moralism as Antipolitics / Wendy Brown
Works Cited
Contributors
Index

Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson, eds.