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.
