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1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) |
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Nation of newcomers : immigrant history as American history |
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Nation of newcomers.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-212) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The violence of value -- White entitlement and other people's crimes -- Beyond ethical obligation -- Grafting terror onto illegality -- Immigrant rights versus civil rights -- Conclusion: Racialized hauntings of the devalued dead. |
| Summary |
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. Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies and Asian American Studies, with affiliations in Gender and Women's Studies and English, at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Publisher's note. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| Note |
All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
Immigrants -- Civil rights -- United States.
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Criminal liability -- United States.
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Noncitizens -- United States.
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Illegality -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Marginality, Social -- United States.
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Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States.
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Racism -- United States.
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Illegal immigration -- United States.
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Noncitizens.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| Added Title |
Racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected |
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0814723756 (cl ; alk. paper) |
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0814723764 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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9780814723760 (pb ; alk. paper) |
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0814723772 (ebook) |
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0814725422 (ebook) |
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9780814723777 (ebook) |
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9780814725429 (ebook) |
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9780814723753 hardcover |
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9780814723760 paperback |
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9780814725429 ebook |
| Standard No. |
heb40120 hdl |
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