Social death : racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected / Lisa Marie Cacho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cacho, Lisa Marie.

Series:

Nation of Newcomers

Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Civil rights--United States.

Immigrants.

Minorities--Civil rights--United States.

Minorities.

Noncitizens--United States.

Noncitizens.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Criminal liability--United States.

Criminal liability.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Illegality--Social aspects--United States.

Illegality.

Illegal immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Social 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-b

Contents:

Introduction: the violence of value

White entitlement and other people's crimes

Beyond ethical obligation

Grafting terror onto illegality

Immigrant rights as civil rights

Conclusion: wreck in the road: racialized hauntings of the devalued dead.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8147-2377-2

OCLC:

818868981