Social death [[electronic resource] ] : racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected / / Lisa Marie Cacho

• Autore: Cacho Lisa Marie
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.173
• Soggetto topico: Immigrants - Civil rights - United States; Minorities - Civil rights - United States; Noncitizens - United States; Marginality, Social - United States; Criminal liability - United States; Racism - United States; Illegality - Social aspects - United States; Illegal immigration
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Social death
• ISBN: 0-8147-2377-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813009803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Nation of Newcomers