Stranger Intimacy
Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West
Format:Hardback
Publisher:University of California Press
Published:18th Nov '11
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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.
"Brilliant... [Shah's] lucid prose, vivid stories, and gripping analysis make it a great read for both academic and general audiences." -- Julia Camacho (University of Texas, El Paso) 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." -- Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University Jrnl Of American History "Carefully documented and compellingly narrated... Transforms the central questions in Asian American and immigration history." -- Monisha Das Gupta American Historical Review
ISBN: 9780520270855
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
Weight: 635g
358 pages