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PublisherNew York University Press

ISBN-100814723764

ISBN-139780814723760

eBay Product ID (ePID)117154331

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Number of Pages236 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSocial Death : Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

Publication Year2012

SubjectMinority Studies, Liability, Discrimination & Race Relations, Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, Civil Rights, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Criminology

TypeTextbook

AuthorLisa Marie Cacho

Subject AreaLaw, Political Science, Social Science

SeriesNation of Nations Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2012-024957

Reviews"Even though this book is just being published, I have been telling people to find Lisa Marie Cacho's work and read it for years. She has a rare ability to illuminate the collisions and erasures of identity, and she powerfully explains how their devastating consequences are the grounds for social order. This is a game-changing book, written in beautiful and lucid prose."-Rachel Buff,University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, "...Cacho is basically right in her assessment of death and devaluation, especially under the slanted promises of liberal democracy and national consciousness...[A] profound way to think about freedom."-, Women' Studies Quarterly, Apowerful analysis of comparative racialization. As a text that painstakingly details the contemporary circumstances by which race attributes value to certain lives while denying it to others, Social Death will be one of those books that we come back to over and over again., "An innovated, dense, and highly intellectual book best suited for graduate students, law students, scholars, and any layperson interested in race, law, philosophy, and politics."- CHOICE ,, "In this compelling probe of comparative racialization projects in the contemporary United States, Lisa Marie Cacho offers an abundance of analytic tools that help make sense of the spaces of 'social death,' liminal positions from which the rightless struggle to assert their personhood. Relying on a broad range of materials including news articles and other media products, official government reports and court transcripts Cacho identifies three populations whose very being constitutes what she refers to as 'de facto status crimes' gang members, undocumented immigrants and un(der)employed African Americans." - Latino Studies ,, "...Cacho is basically right in her assessment of death and devaluation, especially under the slanted promises of liberal democracy and national consciousness...[A] profound way to think about freedom."-, Women' Studies Quarterly, "This is a game-changing book, written in beautiful and lucid prose." -Rachel Buff,University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Even though this book is just being published, I have been telling people to find Lisa Marie Cachos work and read it for years. She has a rare ability to illuminate the collisions and erasures of identity, and she powerfully explains how their devastating consequences are the grounds for social order. This is a game-changing book, written in beautiful and lucid prose., "proves itself an eye-opening account of how and why the American polity 'is dependent upon the permanence of certain groups' criminalization,' groups who are thus rendered functionally 'ineligible for parenthood'"- American Studies ,, Cacho is basically right in her assessment of death and devaluation, especially under the slanted promises of liberal democracy and national consciousness[A]profound way to think about freedom., "An innovated, dense, and highly intellectual book best suited for graduate students, law students, scholars, and any layperson interested in race, law, philosophy, and politics."- CHOICE, "A powerful analysis of comparative racialization. As a text that painstakingly details the contemporary circumstances by which race attributes value to certain lives while denying it to others,Social Deathwill be one of those books that we come back to over and over again."-Roderick A. Ferguson,author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference, "Proves itself an eye-opening account of how and why the American polity is dependent upon the permanence of certain groups' criminalization, groups who are thus rendered functionally 'ineligible for personhood.'"- American Studies, "Proves itself an eye-opening account of how and why the American polity is dependent upon the permanence of certain groups' criminalization, groups who are thus rendered functionally 'ineligible for parenthood.'"- American Studies ,, "A powerful analysis of comparative racialization. As a text that painstakingly details the contemporary circumstances by which race attributes value to certain lives while denying it to others, Social Death will be one of those books that we come back to over and over again."-Roderick A. Ferguson,author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference, An innovated, dense, and highly intellectual book best suited for graduate students, law students, scholars, and any layperson interested in race, law, philosophy, and politics., "â€¦Cacho is basically right in her assessment of death and devaluation, especially under the slanted promises of liberal democracy and national consciousnessâ€¦[A]Â profound way to think about freedom."-, Women' Studies Quarterly, Proves itself an eye-opening account of how and why the American polity is dependent upon the permanence of certain groups' criminalization, groups who are thus rendered functionally 'ineligible for personhood.', "Apowerful analysis of comparative racialization. As a text that painstakingly details the contemporary circumstances by which race attributes value to certain lives while denying it to others, Social Death will be one of those books that we come back to over and over again."-Roderick A. Ferguson,author of The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number7

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal323.173

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction: The Violence of Value 1. White Entitlement and Other People's Crimes 2. Beyond Ethical Obligation 3. Grafting Terror onto Illegality 4. Immigrant Rights versus Civil Rights Conclusion: Racialized Hauntings of the Devalued Dead Notes Index About the Author

SynopsisWinner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association A necessary read that demonstrates the ways in which certain people are devalued without attention to social contexts 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-based politics on notions of who is and is not a deserving member of society inadvertently replicates the logic that creates and normalizes states of social and literal death. Her understanding of inalienable rights and personhood provides us the much-needed comparative analytical and ethical tools to understand the racialized and nationalized tensions between racial groups. Driven by a radical, relentless critique, Social Death challenges us to imagine a heretofore "unthinkable" politics and ethics that do not rest on neoliberal arguments about worth, but rather emerge from the insurgent experiences of those negated persons who do not live by the norms that determine the productive, patriotic, law abiding, and family-oriented subject., Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association 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-based politics on notions of who is and is not a deserving member of society inadvertently replicates the logic that creates and normalizes states of social and literal death. Her understanding of inalienable rights and personhood provides us the much-needed comparative analytical and ethical tools to understand the racialized and nationalized tensions between racial groups. Driven by a radical, relentless critique, Social Death challenges us to imagine a heretofore "unthinkable" politics and ethics that do not rest on neoliberal arguments about worth, but rather emerge from the insurgent experiences of those negated persons who do not live by the norms that determine the productive, patriotic, law abiding, and family-oriented subject. Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association 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-based politics on notions of who is and is not a deserving member of society inadvertently replicates the logic that creates and normalizes states of social and literal death. Her understanding of inalienable rights and personhood provides us the much-needed comparative analytical and ethical tools to understand the racialized and nationalized tensions between racial groups. Driven by a radical, relentless critique, Social Death challenges us to imagine a heretofore "unthinkable" politics and ethics that do not rest on neoliberal arguments about worth, but rather emerge from the insurgent experiences of those negated persons who do not live by the norms that determine the productive, patriotic, law abiding, and family-oriented subject., Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association 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-based politics on notions of who is and is not a deserving member of society inadvertently replicates the logic that creates and normalizes states of social and literal death. Her understanding of inalienable rights and personhood provides us the much-needed comparative analytical and ethical tools to understand the racialized and nationalized tensions between racial groups. Driven by a radical, relentless critique, Social Death challenges us to imagine a heretofore "unthinkable" politics and ethics that do not rest on neoliberal arguments about worth, but rather emerge from the insurgent experiences of those negated persons who do not live by the norms that determine the productive, patriotic, law abiding, and family-oriented subject., Argues that the demands for personhood for those who, in the eyes of society, have little value, depend on capitalist and hetero-patriarchal measures of worth

LC Classification NumberJV6456.C33 2012