Social death : racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected /

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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 e...

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1. Verfasser:
Cacho, Lisa Marie
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : New York University Press, c2012.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
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
Umfang:
1 online resource (237 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Schriftenreihe:
Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American history
ISBN:
0-8147-2377-2
Schlagworte:
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.
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