Utopian Imaginings

Victoria W. Wolcott is Professor of History and Director of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of Living in the Future: Utopianism and the Long Civil Rights Movement; Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle Over Segregated Recreation in America; and Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit.

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Introduction
Victoria W. Wolcott

Part I: Toward a Utopian History

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
Francis J. Butler and Jennifer Hull Dorsey

2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black America
Victoria W. Wolcott

3. "The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School": Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of Sagaris
Katelyn M. Campbell

Part II: Toward a Utopian Method

4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian Society
Secil E. Ertorer

5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater's Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public Realm
Dan Shanahan

Part III: Toward a Troubled Utopia

6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianism in American Political Thought
Alix Olson and Alex Zamalin

7. "If you don't love children, you don't understand socialism": The Children of Peoples Temple
Alexandra Leah Prince

8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero's Writings
Marla Segol

Part IV: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy

9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of Hope
Richard Reitsma

10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopia by Teaching Dystopia
Anita C. Butera

11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian Moment
Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller

Contributors
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