03249oam 2200745Ia 450 991048035340332120220210231543.00-8147-2377-210.18574/9780814723777(CKB)2670000000276201(EBL)1051351(OCoLC)818868981(SSID)ssj0000832475(PQKBManifestationID)11440115(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832475(PQKBWorkID)10899837(PQKB)11776442(MiAaPQ)EBC1051351(OCoLC)816075427(MdBmJHUP)muse24441(DE-B1597)547719(DE-B1597)9780814723777(EXLCZ)99267000000027620120120621d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial Death[electronic resource] Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected /Lisa Marie CachoNew York New York University Pressc20121 online resource (237 p.)Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-2376-4 0-8147-2375-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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-bNation of NewcomersIllegalitySocial aspectsUnited StatesRacismUnited StatesCriminal liabilityUnited StatesMarginality, SocialUnited StatesNoncitizensUnited StatesIllegal immigrationUnited StatesMinoritiesCivil rightsUnited StatesImmigrantsCivil rightsUnited StatesElectronic books.IllegalitySocial aspectsRacismCriminal liabilityMarginality, SocialNoncitizensIllegal immigrationMinoritiesCivil rightsImmigrantsCivil rights323.173Cacho Lisa Marie1055559MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480353403321Social Death2489077UNINA