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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.
Price: $75.00
Pages: 358
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: American Crossroads
Publication Date:
09 January 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520270855
Format: Hardcover
“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.”
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
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
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