Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Shah, Nayan, 1966-

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

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Description

xiv, 347 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations--dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

American crossroads ; 31

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books.
• Project Muse UPCC books
• American crossroads 31.

Subject

• Staatsbürger
• Geschlechterrolle
• Recht
• Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
• Sex and law
• Migrant labor
• Foreign workers
• Citizenship > Social aspects
• Foreign workers > North America
• Migrant labor > North America
• Sex and law > North America
• Citizenship > Social aspects > North America
• Nordamerika
• North America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780520270855 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0520270851 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780520270879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520270878 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011030381

OCLC

• 712114172
• SCSB-11822284

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library