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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVictoria W. WolcottPart 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 AmericaFrancis J. Butler and Jennifer Hull Dorsey2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black AmericaVictoria W. Wolcott3. "The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School": Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of SagarisKatelyn M. CampbellPart II: Toward a Utopian Method 4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian SocietySecil E. Ertorer5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater's Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public RealmDan ShanahanPart III: Toward a Troubled Utopia 6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianism in American Political ThoughtAlix Olson and Alex Zamalin7. "If you don't love children, you don't understand socialism": The Children of Peoples TempleAlexandra Leah Prince8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero's WritingsMarla SegolPart IV: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy 9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of HopeRichard Reitsma10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopia by Teaching DystopiaAnita C. Butera11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian MomentDalia Antonia Caraballo MullerContributorsIndex

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVictoria W. WolcottPart 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 AmericaFrancis J. Butler and Jennifer Hull Dorsey2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black AmericaVictoria W. Wolcott3. "The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School": Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of SagarisKatelyn M. CampbellPart II: Toward a Utopian Method 4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian SocietySecil E. Ertorer5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater's Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public RealmDan ShanahanPart III: Toward a Troubled Utopia 6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianism in American Political ThoughtAlix Olson and Alex Zamalin7. "If you don't love children, you don't understand socialism": The Children of Peoples TempleAlexandra Leah Prince8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero's WritingsMarla SegolPart IV: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy 9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of HopeRichard Reitsma10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopia by Teaching DystopiaAnita C. Butera11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian MomentDalia Antonia Caraballo MullerContributorsIndex

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionVictoria W. WolcottPart 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 AmericaFrancis J. Butler and Jennifer Hull Dorsey2. Black Cooperators: Owenism and Utopia in Black AmericaVictoria W. Wolcott3. "The Women Activists Found Little Peace at Bucolic School": Utopian Dreams, Radical Feminist Nightmares, and the Pedagogical Potential of SagarisKatelyn M. CampbellPart II: Toward a Utopian Method 4. Utopian Imaginings: Migration as the Pursuit of the Utopian SocietySecil E. Ertorer5. Public Ritual and Utopia: How Torn Space Theater's Creative Placemaking Strategies Activate the Public RealmDan ShanahanPart III: Toward a Troubled Utopia 6. Repossessing Utopia from Below: Black/Feminist/Queer Utopianism in American Political ThoughtAlix Olson and Alex Zamalin7. "If you don't love children, you don't understand socialism": The Children of Peoples TempleAlexandra Leah Prince8. Kabbalah, Sex Magic, and the Trans-Utopia: Powerful Genderings and Sexualities in the Zohar and Moshe Cordovero's WritingsMarla SegolPart IV: Toward a Utopian Pedagogy 9. Migrantopias: Teaching the Dystopian/Utopian Narratives of Migration through a Pedagogy of HopeRichard Reitsma10. The Classroom as a Community of Learning: Confronting Utopia by Teaching DystopiaAnita C. Butera11. The Impossible Project: A Utopian Pedagogy for a Dystopian MomentDalia Antonia Caraballo MullerContributorsIndex