Preface, Pablo Mitchell
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Into the Void, or the Musings and Confessions of a Redheaded Stepchild Lost in Western Legal History and Found in the Legal Borderlands of the North American West, Katrina Jagodinsky
Part I: Legal Borderlands of Race and Gender
1. Enforcing Colonial Boundaries in the Twenty-First Century: Settler Anxiety and the Violence Against Women Act, Sarah Deer
2. Race, Blood, and Belonging: Transnational Blackfoot Bands and Families along the US-Canada Border, 1855-1915, Jeffrey P. Shepherd
3. Abortion and Intimate Borderlands, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine
Part II: Legal Borderlands of Property and Citizenship
4. Legal Ambiguities on the Ground: Black Californians’ Land Claims, 1848-1870, Dana Elizabeth Weiner
5. Ditches and Desirability: Regulating Race through the Flow and Quality of Immigration and the Application of Western Water Law in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Tom I. Romero II
6. Jurisdictional No Man’s Land: Choctaws, Lawyers, and the Coal Question in Indian Territory, Brian Frehner
Part III: Legal Borderlands of Justice and Reform
7. The Courtroom as Legal Borderland: Colonial Encounters between Western and Indigenous Legal Tradition in the Courts of the Alaska District, 1902-1903, Andrea Geiger
8. Reforming Deportees: Imprisonment and Immigration Control during the 1930s, Kelly Lytle Hernandez
9. the Specter of Compensation: Mexican Claims against the United States, 1923-1941, Allison Powers Useche
10. Negotiating Race: The Legal Borderlands of Court-Ordered Desegregation in Denver, Colorado, Danielle R. Olden
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