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Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

2012 New York University ;New York : New York University Press, ©2012 ;ISBN: 0814723756 ;ISBN: 9780814723753 ;ISBN: 0814725422 ;ISBN: 9780814725429 ;ISBN: 9780814723760 ;ISBN: 0814723764 ;EISBN: 9780814723777 ;EISBN: 0814723772 ;EISBN: 0814725422 ;EISBN: 9780814725429 ;DOI: 10.18574/9780814723777 ;OCLC: 816075427 ;LCCallNum: JV6456.C33 2012

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    Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
  • Author: Cacho, Lisa Marie
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Civil rights ; Criminal liability ; Criminality ; Criminology ; Cultural ; Illegal aliens ; Illegal immigrants ; Illegal immigration ; Illegality ; Immigrants ; Marginality, Social ; Marginalized people ; Minorities ; Neoliberalism ; Noncitizens ; Oppression ; Racism ; Rights ; Social aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; U.S.A ; United States
  • Description: Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies AssociationSocial Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of social justice struggles and scholarship - that the battle to end oppression shares the moral grammar that structures exploitation and sanctions state violence. Lisa Marie Cacho forcefully argues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and heteropatriarchal measures of worth.With poignant case studies, Cacho illustrates that our very understanding of personhood is premised upon the unchallenged devaluation of criminalized populations of color. Hence, the reliance of rights-based politics on notions of who is and is not a deserving member of society inadvertently replicates the logic that creates and normalizes states of social and literal death. Her understanding of inalienable rights and personhood provides us the much-needed comparative analytical and ethical tools to understand the racialized and nationalized tensions between racial groups. Driven by a radical, relentless critique, Social Death challenges us to imagine a heretofore unthinkable politics and ethics that do not rest on neoliberal arguments about worth, but rather emerge from the insurgent experiences of those negated persons who do not live by the norms that determine the productive, patriotic, law abiding, and family-oriented subject.
  • Publisher: New York: NYU Press
  • Creation Date: 2012
  • Format: 236
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0814723756
    ISBN: 9780814723753
    ISBN: 0814725422
    ISBN: 9780814725429
    ISBN: 9780814723760
    ISBN: 0814723764
    EISBN: 9780814723777
    EISBN: 0814723772
    EISBN: 0814725422
    EISBN: 9780814725429
    DOI: 10.18574/9780814723777
    OCLC: 816075427
    LCCallNum: JV6456.C33 2012
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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