Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West /
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| Author / Creator: | Shah, Nayan, 1966- |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011. |
| Description: | xiv, 347 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American crossroads ; 31 American crossroads ; 31. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8534194 |
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.
