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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480353403321

Autore

Cacho Lisa Marie

Titolo

Social Death [[electronic resource] ] : Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected / / Lisa Marie Cacho

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8147-2377-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 p.)

Collana

Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American history

Disciplina

323.173

Soggetti

Illegality - Social aspects - United States

Racism - United States

Criminal liability - United States

Marginality, Social - United States

Noncitizens - United States

Illegal immigration - United States

Minorities - Civil rights - United States

Immigrants - Civil rights - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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