


Refusing to separate political economy, state practices, racialization, and the regulation of domesticity and sexuality, Nayan Shah reads legal and bureaucratic archives for stories of non-normative sociality among multi-racial transient migrants in the early twentieth century. "Based on virtuoso research interlaced with a lucid and compelling analysis, "Stranger Intimacy" challenges the assumptions at the heart of most social history. With this treasure trove, he launches a stunning array of arguments against the.
