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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: American crossroads ; 31.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.Description: xiv, 347 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.8/7305409041 23
LOC classification:
  • HD6300 .S53 2011eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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