Community as the Material Basis of Citizenship addresses community as the site of participation, production, and rights of citizens and brings to bear a profound critique of a collective process that has historically excluded working class communities and communities of color from any real governance.

1. Introduction [Rodolfo Rosales] 2. The Dialectics of Citizenship and Community [Rodolfo Rosales] 3. Lost in Migration?: On Comitatus, Community, and Citizenship [Louis Mendoza] 4. Setting the Stage: A Top-down Perspective on Factors that divide Democratic Citizenship [Carol Yoder and Christina Verzijl] 5. Dishonored Citizenry: Black Women, Civic Virtue, and Electoral Powers [Joy A. James] 6. Transborder Political Subjectivity and Enacted Citizenship: Toward the End of the Neoliberal 'State of Exception'? [Devon G. Peña] 7. No Nos Moveran: Embodying Buen Vivir in the Case of Mission Trails Mobile Home Community [Marisol Cortez] 8. Citizenship and Sovereignty: The Eternal Conflict Between Rights and Community [Deron Marquez] 9. Sovereigns or Citizens? The Paradox of Indigenous Self-Determination [Rebecca Tsosie] 10. Asian Americans: the Challenge of Citizenship Status and Building Community [Kim Geron and Danvy Le] 11. Conclusion