03293nam 2200769Ia 450 991078636470332120200520144314.00-8147-2377-210.18574/9780814723777(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(Au-PeEL)EBL1051351(CaPaEBR)ebr10617894(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 NewcomersImmigrantsCivil rightsUnited StatesMinoritiesCivil rightsUnited StatesNoncitizensUnited StatesMarginality, SocialUnited StatesCriminal liabilityUnited StatesRacismUnited StatesIllegalitySocial aspectsUnited StatesIllegal immigrationImmigrantsCivil rightsMinoritiesCivil rightsNoncitizensMarginality, SocialCriminal liabilityRacismIllegalitySocial aspectsIllegal immigration.323.173Cacho Lisa Marie1537580MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786364703321Social death3786962UNINA