Social Death Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

Name: Social Death Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
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ISBN: 9780814723760

ISBN-10: 0814723764

ISBN-13: 9780814723760

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lisa Marie Cacho

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Social Deathtackles 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-based politics on notions of who is and is not a deserving member of society inadvertently replicates…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Violence of Value



White Entitlement and Other Peoples Crimes



Beyond Ethical Obligation



Grafting Terror onto Illegality



Immigrant Rights versus Civil Rights


Conclusion: Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead


Notes


Index


About the Author