Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
This collection focuses broadly on the role of law in the construction of U.S. borders and takes up an important question raised by the global turn in American studies scholarship: once territory becomes less critical to scholarship in the discipline, what constitutes the frame of American studies?\ For this project, a "border" is not simply a territorial boundary. Borders are created through formal legal controls on entry and exit, through the construction of rights of citizenship and...
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This collection focuses broadly on the role of law in the construction of United States borders and takes up an important question raised by the global turn in American studies scholarship: once territory becomes less critical to scholarship in the discipline, what constitutes the frame of American studies?
At the boundaries of law : executive clemency, sovereign prerogative, and the dilemma of American legality19Racial naturalization41Notes toward a queer history of naturalization67Outlawing "coolies" : race, nation, and empire in the age of emancipation85Between "Oriental depravity" and "natural degenerates" : spatial borderlands and the making of ordinary Americans111Toward a history of statelessness in America135In the shadow of NAFTA : Y tu mama tambien revisits the national allegory of Mexican sovereignty159The edges of empire and the limits of sovereignty : American Guano Islands187Romantic sovereignty : popular romances and the American imperial state in the Philippines213Where is Guantanamo?239Canton is not Boston : the invention of American imperial sovereignty267Liberation under siege : U.S. military occupation and Japanese women's enfranchisement293Between camps : eastern bloc "escapees" and Cold War borderlands319The biopolitics of security : oil, empire, and the sports utility vehicle351"Setting the conditions" for Abu Ghraib : the prison nation abroad381
