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Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0520270878
ISBN-13:: 9780520270879
Pub. Date:: 01/09/2012
Publisher:: University of California Press

ISBN-10:: 0520270878
ISBN-13:: 9780520270879
Pub. Date:: 01/09/2012
Publisher:: University of California Press

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Overview

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.

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ISBN-13:	9780520270879
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	01/09/2012
Series:	American Crossroads , #31
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown (UC Press).

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

part 1 Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy

1 Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor 19

2 Policing Strangers and Borderlands 53

3 Rural Dependency and IntimateTensions 90

part 2 Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy

4 Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender 129

5 Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy 153

part 3 Membership and Nation-States

6 Regulating Intimacy and Immigration 191

7 Strangers to Citizenship 231

Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging 261

Notes 275

Select Bibliography 307

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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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"Carefully documented and compellingly narrated. . . . Transforms the central questions in Asian American and immigration history."

American Historical Review

Makes a significant contribution to historical scholarship. . . . But Shah realizes a broader objective, to 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

"Brilliant. . . . [Shah's] lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences."—H-Net Reviews
"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
"An important contribution to the forging of a more complete and inclusive history of the North American West."—Jrnl of American History

From the Publisher

Shah convincingly illuminates the intersection of seemingly separate bodies of law regulating citizenship, on the one hand, and intimacy, on the other. . . . An important contribution to the forging of a more complete and inclusive history of the North American West.

Journal of American History

"The book covers a multitude of fascinating cases that provide insight into the construction of intimacies between South Asian male transient migrants and white, African American, and Latino men and women."

American Studies Journal

Shah’s brilliant and far-reaching second book offers a fresh take on intimacy and everyday life for migrants in cities and rural areas in the United States and Canada before the mid-twentieth century. . . . Shah makes a key contribution to literature on cross-racial intimacy and transnational queer studies, joining two growing scholarly fields that generally have remained separate. The book’s lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences interested in migration, intimacy, and the West.

H-Net

"Carefully documentedand compellingly narrated. . . . Transformsthe central questions in Asian American and immigrationhistory."

American Historical Review - Monisha Das Gupta

“An important contribution to the forging of a more complete and inclusive history of the North American West.

Jrnl Of American History - Andrea Geiger

“Shah’s brilliant and far-reaching second book offers a fresh take on intimacy and everyday life for migrants in cities and rural areas in the United States and Canada before the mid-twentieth century. . . . Shah makes a key contribution to literature on cross-racial intimacy and transnational queer studies, joining two growing scholarly fields that generally have remained separate. The book’s lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences interested in migration, intimacy, and the West.

H-Net Reviews - Julia Camacho (University of Texas

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West / Edition 1

Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West / Edition 1

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