Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (American Crossroads) (Volume 31)

Shah, Nayan

ISBN 10: 0520270878 / ISBN 13: 9780520270879

Published by University of California Press (edition First Edition), 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (American Crossroads) (Volume 31)
• Publisher: University of California Press (edition First Edition)
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520270878
• ISBN 13: 9780520270879
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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).