Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West
Author:   Nayan Shah
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   31
ISBN:  

9780520270879


Pages:   358
Publication Date:   09 January 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Nayan Shah
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   31
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780520270879


ISBN 10:   0520270878
Pages:   358
Publication Date:   09 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy 1. Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor 2. Policing Strangers and Borderlands 3. Rural Dependency and Intimate Tensions PART II. Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy 4. Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender 5. Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy PART III. Membership and Nation-States 6. Regulating Intimacy and Immigration 7. Strangers to Citizenship Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Show how the history of even a small (in numerical terms) minority has important implications for the ways in which all Americans understand the parameters of citizenship. -- Southern California Quarterly


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Nayan Shah is Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and the author of Contagious Divides (UC Press).

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