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Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
Mary L. Dudziak (Ed.)
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Description for Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders
Paperback. This is the first collection to map the intersection of law and American studies, and it captures the excitement of interdisciplinary work at this intersection. Editor(s): Dudziak, Mary L.; Volpp, Leti. Series: A Special Issue of American Quarterly. Num Pages: 432 pages, 22, 22 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; GTB; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 590.
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 noncitizenship, and through the regulation of American power in other parts of the world. Where legal rights ... Read more
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 noncitizenship, and through the regulation of American power in other parts of the world. Where legal rights ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Series
A Special Issue of American Quarterly
Condition
New
Weight
589g
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801884146
SKU
V9780801884146
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About Mary L. Dudziak (Ed.)
Mary L. Dudziak is the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guiardo Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California Law School and affiliated faculty in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity. Leti Volpp is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
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