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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: American Neoliberal Culture -- 1 Understanding the Components of American Neoliberal Culture -- 2 Learning from Neoliberal Las Vegas: Understanding Globalization in Location -- 3 Home is Where the Market is: Corporatocracy in Context -- 4 Poverty and Welfare: Hyperlegality and the Erosion of Welfare-State Society -- 5 Biopower and Operation Iraqi (Governing Through) Freedom -- Conclusion: Resisting Neoliberal Culture -- Works Cited

Neoliberal Culture presents a framework for analysing neoliberalism in the United States as a culture-or structure of feeling- which shapes American everyday life. The book proposes five "components" as the keys to any study of American neoliberal culture: biopower, corporatocracy, globalization, the erosion of welfare-state society, and hyperlegality. Carefully organized according to its central themes and adopting a case study approach in order to allow for thorough, illustrated analyses, this book is an important tool for scholars and students of contemporary cultural studies, popular cultu.

Introduction : disaster whiteness -- Starting points : white power neoliberalism/neoliberal white power -- Immiseration culture, or how the family became a trope and a truncheon -- Racializing family values : strategies for neoliberal takeover -- The "family" at the core of white power utopia -- Conclusions in strange times, or life within the conjuncture of neoliberalism and white power.

Part I. Introductories -- 1. Preface; Kenneth M. Roemer -- 2. Introduction; Patricia Ventura -- 3. Aethiopian Devils Are White: Constructions of Race in Early Modern Utopian Texts; Jane Campbell -- Part II. African American Literatures of Utopia from the Past to the Afrofuture -- 4. The Illusory Promises of Freedom: Frederick Douglass and the Utopia of Liberation; David Lemke -- 5. Intratextual Utopianism in Pauline Hopkins' Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self and the Colored American Magazine; Amber Foster -- 6. Inevitable Hell? Eutopia and Race in George S. Schuyler's Black No More; Tarshia Stanley -- 7. Black Power Utopia: Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, and the Revolutionary Afrofuturism of 1962-1974; Mark Tabone -- 8. Utopianism, Anti-utopianism, and Cultural Appropriation: Mike Resnick's Kirinyaga; Jeffrey Allen Tucker -- 9. Re-Programming the Present: The Dynamism of Black Futurity in Nalo Hopkinson Novels"; Cienna Davis -- 10. Race and Utopia in Mat Johnson's Pym; Julie Fiorelli -- 11. Someone Else's Hell: Utopia in N.K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology; Susana Morris -- 12. Afrotopia and Afrofuturism: Seeking a Happy Place in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Rail -- road and Nisi Shawl's Everfair; Isiah Lavender III -- Part III. Utopian Literatures of Race and Ethnicity -- 13. Nineteenth Century American Utopianism and the Attempted Reform of a Native American Tribe: From Fourierist Social Experiment to Mass Murder; Charles W. Nuckolls -- 14. Utopian Citizenship and Contemporary Arab-American Literature; Joseph Donica -- 15. The White Nationalist Utopia and the Reproduction of Victimized Whiteness; Edward K. Chan -- 16. "Strange Times to be a Jew"—Themes of Whiteness, Identity, and Sanctuary in the Imagined Jewish Utopias of Grand Island and Sitka; Justin Nordstrom -- 17. Looking Inward: Charles Yu and the Impossibility of Private Utopias; Betsy Huang -- 18. The Tale of the Tattoo: Latino/Americans, Race, and Utopia in Ink; Tace Hedrick and Karina Vado

Since 2008, there has been a renewed search for alternative forms of housing production that can move beyond speculative interests and are based instead on models of co-ownership, co-production, and co-management. Hence the concept of the cooperative has experienced a true renaissance in recent years. This book explores how cooperative housing construction and forms of self-determined building production might offer effective solutions to the global housing crisis, moving us closer to a more equitable and sustainable future through systematic change. With case studies from Germany, Switzerland, Brazil, Uruguay, Ethiopia, and China, as well as a glossary of important terms