Stranger intimacy : contesting race, sexuality, and the law in the North American West / / Nayan Shah.
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| Superior document: | American crossroads ; 31 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American crossroads ;
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 347 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.