1st Edition
American Political Thought An Alternative View
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: American Political Thought: An Alternative View
Jonathan Keller and Alex Zamalin
Section I: African-American and Feminist Political Thought
Chapter1: African American Political Thought, Democracy and Freedom
Alex Zamalin
Chapter 2: Culture, Race, and Sovereignty: Problems in Contemporary Black Thought
Utz McKnight
Chapter 3: Audre Lorde and the Poetics of Love In the Movement for Black Lives
Laura Grattan
Chapter 4: Against Nostalgia: The Political Theory of Ida B. Wells
Jill Locke
Chapter 5: Revolutionary Pasts and Transnational Futures: "Home Lessons" from U.S. Radical and Third World Feminisms
Jocelyn M. Boryczka
Section II: Radical American Political Thought
Chapter 6: The Dispossession of the Public and the "Common Benefits" Clause: Working Against Neoliberal Oligarchy through U.S. State Constitutions
Shannon Mariotti
Chapter 7: John Dewey and the Geography of Power
Jason Kosnoski
Chapter 8: Counter-Patriotism and American Radical Politics
Maxwell Burkey
Section III: Conservative Political Thought
Chapter 9: An Alternative Tradition in Conservative Political Economy
Peter Kolozi
Chapter 10: A Rich Tapestry: Varieties of Conservative Jurisprudence
David G. Leitch
Chapter 11: The Christian Right and the American Biblical Tradition
Jonathan Keller
Biography
Jonathan Keller is Assistant Professor of Government at Manhattan College. His research is on American political thought, American political development and religion in American politics.
Alex Zamalin is Director of the African American Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Detroit Mercy. He has written essays on topics such as politics and literature, ethics, social justice, psychoanalysis and race, and race and American politics.
'Bringing together an impressive group of scholars, Keller and Zamalin have edited a timely and essential book that elevates several underappreciated writers and thinkers to their rightful place in the history of American political thought. They also make a persuasive case that only by including the ideas of the marginalized--particularly African-Americans, feminists, radicals, and conservatives--can we truly understand the intellectual soul of America.' - Robert J. Lacey, Iona College, author of Pragmatic Conservatism: Edmund Burke and His American Heirs
'Far too many scholars still think of American political thought as a series of variations on classical liberalism and civic republicanism. Jonathan Keller and Alex Zamalin’s American Political Thought: An Alternative View shows us how much more lively the picture really is. Bringing figures such as David Walker, George Fitzhugh, Emma Goldman, and Audre Lorde into the foreground, the book illustrates how radical and conservative, feminist and African American thinkers offered strikingly oppositional visions of the future. This collection remaps American political thought in a most productive way.' - Jack Turner, author of Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
