Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of contributors; Introduction American Political Thought: An Alternative View; Why "American" Political Thought?; Alternative American Political Thought; African American Political Thought; Feminism and American Political Thought; American Radicalism; Conservatism in America; Rethinking American Political Thought; Bibliography; PART I: African American and Feminist Political Thought; 1. African American Political Thought, Democracy, and Freedom.
Conclusion: Home Lessons for Contemporary Transnational Feminism; Bibliography; PART II: Radical American Political Thought; 6. The Dispossession of the Public and the "Common Benefits" Clause: Working Against Neoliberal Oligarchy through US State Constitutions; Liberalism, Neoliberalism, and Oligarchy: Defining the Contemporary American Landscape; Oligarchy; The Common Benefits Clauses; Calling Forth a Critique of Neoliberalism Rooted in the American Tradition; Conclusion; Bibliography; 7. John Dewey and the Geography of Power; Intelligence, Integration, and Power; Geography and Power.
The Contemporary Geography of Power; Practicing Public Geography; Note; Bibliography; 8. Counter-Patriotism and American Radical Politics; Narrating Patriotism and the Left; Conceptualizing Counter-Patriotism; Intersections of Patriotism and Radicalism; Counter-Patriots: William Lloyd Garrison and Emma Goldman; Bibliography; PART III: Conservative Political Thought; 9. An Alternative Tradition in Conservative Political Economy; Conservative Critiques of Capitalism: Antebellum Civil War to Present; Conclusion; Bibliography; 10. A Rich Tapestry: Varieties of Conservative Jurisprudence.
The Nature of Political Thinking: Embodied Experience, Citizenship, and Love; Race, Domination and Community; The Many Faces of Power; Struggle and Freedom; The Abolition of Injustice; Bibliography; 2. Culture, Race, and, Sovereignty: Problems in Contemporary Black Thought; The Dead Weight of History; From Race to Culture; Collective Action; The Polity and its Problems; Epistemology; Reconciliation; Conclusion; Bibliography; 3. Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Love: In the Movement for Black Lives; If "Love Wins," Who Loses? ; Audre Lorde's Poetics of Love.
Transformative Love in the Movement for Black Lives; Bibliography; 4. Against Nostalgia: The Political Theory of Ida B. Wells; Wells' Anti-Nostalgia; Unafraid and Unashamed; New Horizons; The Radicalism of Wellsian Civil Society; Political Theory and Nostalgia; Notes; Bibliography; 5. Revolutionary Pasts and Transnational Futures: "Home Lessons" from US Radical and Third World Feminisms; Introduction; Home and Away: Colonial Discourse in Early Radical Feminist Thought; Decolonizing Home: An Intersectional View from Third World Feminisms.