Stranger Intimacy

Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-520-27087-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 358 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shah, Nayan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy
1. Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor

2. Policing Strangers and Borderlands

3. Rural Dependency and Intimate Tensions

PART II. Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy
4. Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender

5. Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy

PART III. Membership and Nation-States
6. Regulating Intimacy and Immigration

7. Strangers to Citizenship

Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).