Harry van der Linden, Editor
ISBN 978-1-889680-57-6 · Published December 2007 · 255 pages

Introduction

Part I - DEMOCRACY AND RADICAL LISTENING
1. Karsten J. Struhl, Is Democracy a Universal Value? Whose Democracy?
2. Lisa Heldke, The Radical Potential of Listening: A Preliminary Exploration

Part II - MARX, ALIENATION, AND RACISM
1. Amy E. Wendling, Rough, Foul-Mouthed Boys: Women's Monstrous Laboring Bodies
2. Tom Jeannot, Marx, Capitalism, and Race

Part III - THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RACISM
1. John Exdell, Immigration, Race, and Liberal Nationalism
2. C. W. Dawson, Jr., When the House Is on Fire: Finding Hope in the Midst of Democratic Despair
3. Tommy J. Curry, Please Don't Make Me Touch 'Em: Toward a Critical Race Fanonianism as a Possible Justification for Violence Against Whiteness
4. Dwayne A. Tunstall, Why Violence Can Be Viewed as a Legitimate Means of Combatting White Supremacy for Some African Americans

PART IV - PRISONS, OPPRESSION, AND DEMOCRACY
1. Jason L. Mallory, Prisoner Oppression and Free World Privilege
2. Eduardo Mendieta, The Prison Contract and Abolition Democracy
3. Brady Thomas Heiner, "From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison": Angela Y. Davis's Abolition Democracy
4. Mechthild Nagel, In Search of Abolition Democracy
5. Jeffrey Paris, Abolition Democracy and the Ultimate Cancer Threat

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Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden, Editors
ISBN 1-889680-47-8 · Published October 2006 · 304 pages

Introduction

Part I - WAR AND EMPIRE
1. Karsten J. Struhl, Can there be a Just War?
2. Ann Ferguson, No Just War for the Empire
3. Edmund F. Byrne, Leave No Oil Reserves Behind, including Iraq's: The Geopolitics of American Imperialism

Part II - CROSS-BORDER FLOWS IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
1. David R. Cormier and Harry Targ, Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the "Precarious Classes": The Next Phase
2. Jo-Ann Pilardi, From Alien to Guest: A Philosophical Scrutiny of the Bush Administration's "Guest Worker" Initiative
3. Lucinda Joy Peach, Victims or Agents? Female Cross-Border Migrants and Anti-Trafficking Discourse

Part III - BIOPOLITICS AND THE "GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR"
1. Devin Zane Shaw, The Absence of Evidence is Not the Evidence of Absence: Biopolitics and the State of Exception
2. Tzuchien Tho, Politics and the Voice: Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek on the State of Emergency
3. Eduardo Mendieta, The Imperial Bestiary of the U.S.: Alien, Enemy Combatant, Terrorist

PART IV - SUBJECTIVITY AND RESISTANCE
1. Richard Schmitt, Can the Alienated make a Socialist Revolution? Reflections on the Prospects for Socialism
2. Richard A. Jones, Black Authenticity/Inauthenticity and American Empire
3. Richard T. Peterson, Human Rights and the Politics of Neo-colonial Intervention
4. Peter Amato, Marxist Critique and Philosophical Hermeneutics

BOOK DISCUSSION
1. William McBride, Carol Gould's Globalizing Democarcy and Human Rights
2. Omar Dahbour, Is "Globalizing Democracy" Possible?
3. Kory P. Schaff, Are There Human Rights?
4. David Schweickart, Stakeholders and Terrorists: On Carol Gould's Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights
5. Carol Gould, A Reply to my Critics

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Greg Moses, Editor
ISBN 1-889680-46-X · Published August 2006 · 157 pages

1. Greg Moses, Desire at the Docks: A Preview
2. Robert Ware, Creating Organizations and Institutions for Radical Democracy
3. Len Krimerman, One Cheer for Experimental Pluralism another for Education-Shaped Democracy
4. Harry Targ, Class and Race in the US Labor Movement: The Case of the Packinghouse Workers
5. Brenda Bethman, Housewife or Shopgirl? Alienation in Elfriede Jelinek's Women as Lovers
6. Richard Peterson, Media Politics and Human Rights
7. Peg O'Connor, Swimming Against the Mainstream Gay and Lesbian Agenda
8. Melissa Burchard, What's My Line? Gender, Performativity, and Bisexual Identity
9. Lisa Heldke, "Dear Kate Bornstein": Bisexual Reflections on a Bi-Trans Alliance
10. Harry van der Linden, The Left and Humanitarian Intervention as Solidarity
11. Peter Hudis, Philosophical Implications of the War Over Kosovo
12. Cliff DuRand, Making the World Safe for US: Cultural Roots of U.S. Interventionism

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Steve Martinot and Joy James, Editors
ISBN 1-57392-912-3 · Published 2001 by Prometheus Books

Introduction

PART I - DOMINATION
1. José-Antonio Orosco, Postsocialist Prophecy: Latin America and the Future of Progressive Politics
2. Dylan Rodríguez, The "Question" of Prison Praxis" Relations of Force, Social Reproduction, Points of Departure
3. C. George Caffentzis, After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? Foucault, Racism, and the Death Penalty
4. Shannon Sullivan, The Racialization of Space: Toward a Phenomenological Account of Raced and Antiracist Spatiality

PART II - CULTURE
1. Margaret A. Walsh, The Geography of Gender: Transgender Experiences Revise the Map
2. Dan C. Williamson, Resistance, Self-fashioning, and Gay Identity
3. Jared Sexton, There is no Interracial Sexual Relationship: Race, Love, and Sexuality in the Multiracial Movement
4. Kevin Graham, Participatory Democracy in an Age of Global Capitalism

PART III - REIFICATION
1. Frances Latchford, Under No Un/Certain Terms
2. Constance Mui, Pornography, Objectification, and the Sartrean "Look"
3. Mechthild Nagel, Cyborg Mothers: Feminist Discourses of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
4. Michael Howard, Cooperatives, Basic Income, and the Transition to Socialism

PART IV - TRANSFORMATION
1. Elizabeth A. Bowman and Bob Stone, 1968 as a Precedent for Revolt Against Globalization: A Sartrean Interpretation of the Global Uprising
2. Thomas Jeannot, The Secular Religion, Postsecularism, and Marxism
3. Les Gottesman, Reading Behind the (Enemy's) Lines: Fighter-Teachers of Eritrea's Independence War

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Andrew Light and Mechthild Nagel, Editors
ISBN 1-57392-816-X · Published 2000 by Prometheus Books

Introduction

PART I - THE PRODUCTION OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
1. Charles W. Mills, "But What are You Really? The Metaphysics of Race
2. Richard Peterson, Race and Recognition
3. Steve Martinot, The Structure of Whiteness, Its History and Politics
4. Xiaorong Li, "The Chinese Woman:" A Female Object from Two Feminist Perspectives

PART II - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF CLASS ANALYSIS
1. Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler, Recognizing Capital: Some Barriers to Public Discourse about Capital
2. Tony Smith, The Systematic Place of Technological Rents in Capital
3. John Brentlinger, What's "Left" of Our Spirituality?
4. Joel Kovel, Reflections on a Dialectical Ecology

PART III - COMMUNITY IDENTITY, VIOLENCE, AND THE NEOLIBERAL STATE
1. Thomas M. Jeannot, Left Communitarianism and Liberal Selfhood
2. Frank Cunningham, Antioppressive Politics and Group Hatreds
3. Stephen Hartnett, Prisons, Profit, Crime, and Social Control: A Hermeneutic of the Production of Violence
4. Gabriel Vargas, The Debate About the End of History and Global Democracy

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