Against citizenship : the violence of the normative / Amy L. Brandzel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandzel, Amy L., 1970- author.

Series:

Dissident feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--United States--Cases.

Citizenship.

Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation--United States--Cases.

Same-sex marriage.

Hate crimes--United States--Cases.

Hate crimes.

Race relations--Cases.

Race relations.

Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation.

United States.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 210 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

Summary:

Activists and scholars have long appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Amy L. Brandzel provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of "community," practice, or belonging. According to Brandzel, citizenship is a violent dehumanizing mechanism that makes the comparative devaluing of human lives seem commonsensical, logical, and even necessary. Against Citizenship argues that whenever we work on behalf of citizenship, whenever we work towards including more types of peoples under its reign, we inevitably reify the violence of citizenship against nonnormative others. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Specters of Citizenship: Hate Crimes and the Fear of the Repressed 31

2 Intersectionalities Lost and Found: Same-Sex Marriage Law and the Monstrosities of Alliance 70

3 Legal Detours of U.S. Empire: Locating Race and Indigeneity in Law, History, and Hawai'i 100.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780252040030

0252040031

9780252081507

0252081501

OCLC:

921426199