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.