The Trouble with Unity

NYU professor Cristina Beltrán's page for occasional updates

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  • Brenna McBride of Haverford College's magazine traveled to New York a couple of months ago to interview me about my teaching and The Trouble with Unity, and the article went live on the college website today; check it out here. Like other faculty profiles, it's a mix of biography, current research interests, and teaching stories.…

  • Just got my copy of the December 2010 issue of Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, with Public Achievement founder Harry Boyte's article "A Commonwealth of Freedom: Response to Beltrán," following up on my October 2009 article "Going Public: Hannah Arendt, Immigrant Action and the Space of Appearance." Political Theory gave me the…

  • Upcoming talks scheduled at the University of Washington and UC Santa Cruz, and two roundtables at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting. Details on the Upcoming Appearances page.  

  • The first copies of The Trouble with Unity arrived at the Oxford University Press warehouse nearly six weeks ago, people have been able to buy the book via Amazon for a month or so, and as of last Thursday it's finally available on Barnes & Noble's site. And today is a milestone of sorts: It's…

  • Not sure how Google Books works, but Trouble now appears to be scanned in and searchable, meaning, I suspect, that the book will show up more readily in Google searches. Seems like a good thing.

  • Amazon has The Trouble with Unity at #5 on its list of Hot New Releases in Discrimination & Racism, which compiles "bestselling new & future releases" in that category. The list is updated hourly, so who knows where the book will go from here!

  • Amazon just added its LOOK INSIDE! feature to the listing for The Trouble with Unity, so if you'd like to sneak a peek-a-loo, here's your chance! Note that both Amazon and Oxford University Press list the book as "in stock," but IndieBound and Barnes & Noble still show publication date as sometime next month. And…

  • Just got the word that The Trouble With Unity has arrived at the warehouse. (Guess it's too late to change the body-text font to Zapf Dingbats.) Am told that copies ordered from Oxford will arrive sooner than those from Amazon or elsewhere.

  • <!– September 2022: The American Political Science Association annual meeting, Montréal. October 7, 2022: Talk at SUNY Albany. October 27–29, 2022: Association for Political Theory annual meeting, Houston.

  • John Seery edited what will be a terrific book. Just received the page proofs for my article, "Mestiza Poetics: Walt Whitman, Barack Obama, and the Question of Union." Very exciting! Due out in December and published by University Press of Kentucky, A Political Companion… will be the first full-length exploration of Whitman's poetry through the…