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

by Nayan Shah

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520270851
• ISBN13: 9780520270855
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"