Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Toward a Utopian History
	Chapter 1. From “Surcharged Sympathy” to a “Cold Current of Neglect”: The Rev. Thomas James, Abolitionism, and Black Expectations for a Racial Utopia in Reconstruction America
	Chapter 2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black America
	Chapter 3. “The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School”: Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of Sagaris
Part 2: Toward a Utopian Method
	Chapter 4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian Society
	Chapter 5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater’s Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public Realm
Part 3: Toward a Troubled Utopia
	Chapter 6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianismin American Political Thought
	Chapter 7. “If you don’t love children, you don’t underst and socialism”: The Children of Peoples Temple
	Chapter 8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero’s Writings
Part 4: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy
	Chapter 9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of Hope
	Chapter 10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopiaby Teaching Dystopia
	Chapter 11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian Moment
Contributors
Index
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