With The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century “culture of sentimen

What is the political allure, value and currency of emotions within contemporary cultures of governance? What does it mean to govern more humanely? Since the em

An Analysis Of How emotion functions cooperatively with reason & contributes to a healthy democratic politics.

Mastering Emotions examines the interactions between slaveholders and enslaved people, and between White people and free Black people, to expose how emotions su

Modern law seems to be designed to keep emotions at bay. The Sentimental Court argues the exact opposite: that the law is not designed to cast out affective dyn