Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shah, Nayan, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:American crossroads 31.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Migration, capitalism, and stranger intimacy
  • Passion, violence, and asserting honor
  • Policing strangers and borderlands
  • Rural dependency and intimate tensions
  • Intimacy, law, and legitimacy
  • Legal borderlands of age and gender
  • Intimate ties and state legitimacy
  • Membership and nation-states
  • Regulating intimacy and immigration
  • Strangers to citizenship
  • Conclusion: estrangement or belonging?
  • Notes
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.