Defended my PhD dissertation yesterday! “A Dangerous Mass of Alien Stock”: Immigration Law, Federal Indian Law, and Continental Imperialism During Long Assimilation(1870-1924) examines the role of Indian and Immigration law in constructing notions of white citizenship in the PNW!
the queer practice of afters makes legible the emergence of new topographies—productively ersatz heterotopias—that cannot be captured by heterosexual space and place making. this, in turn, allows us to see the long history of the sex/uality of property since Enclosure.
@OrinKerr When did the large advances and writing for one political audience start? I imagine the audience William O Douglas wrote his 30+ books for quite a niche audience and was not becoming ultra wealthy from them, though I know he needed to supplement his income for…reasons