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

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

part 1 Migration, Capitalism, and Stranger Intimacy

1 Passion, Violence, and Asserting Honor 19

2 Policing Strangers and Borderlands 53

3 Rural Dependency and IntimateTensions 90

part 2 Intimacy, Law, and Legitimacy

4 Legal Borderlands of Age and Gender 129

5 Intimate Ties and State Legitimacy 153

part 3 Membership and Nation-States

6 Regulating Intimacy and Immigration 191

7 Strangers to Citizenship 231

Conclusion: Estrangement and Belonging 261

Notes 275

Select Bibliography 307