| Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion, and Migration in the U.S. Midwest Examining how encounters produced by migration lead to intimacies-ranging from sexual, spiritual, and neighborly to hateful and violent, Jane Juffer considers the significant changes that have occurred in small towns following an influx of Latinos to the Midwest. Juffer demonstrates how Latino migration to new areas of the U.S. threatens certain groups because it creates the potential for new kinds of families--mixed race, mixed legal status, and transnational--that challenge the conservative definition of community based on the racially homogeneous, coupled, citizen family. Jane Juffer is Associate Professor of English and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of At Home with Pornography: Women, Sex, and Everyday Life and Single Mother: The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual . |