Incluye bibliografías e índice.

Enforcing colonial boundaries in the twenty-first century: settler anxiety and the Violence Against Women Act / Sarah Deer -- Race, blood, and belonging: transnational Blackfoot bands and families along the US-Canada border, 1855-1915 / Jeffrey P. Shepherd -- Abortion and intimate borderlands / Alicia Gutierrez-Romine -- Legal ambiguities on the ground: Black Californians' land claims, 1848-1870 / Dana Elizabeth Weiner -- 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 -- Jurisdictional no man's land: Choctaws, lawyers, and the coal question in Indian Territory / Brian Frehner -- The courtroom as legal borderland: colonial encounters between western and indigenous legal tradition in the courts of the Alaska district, 1902-1903 / Andrea Geiger -- Reforming deportees: imprisonment and immigration control during the 1930s / Kelly Lytle Hernandez -- The specter of compensation: Mexican claims against the United States, 1923-1941 / Allison Powers Useche -- Negotiating race the legal borderlands of court-ordered desegregation in Denver, Colorado / Danielle R. Olden.