Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
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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. -- 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. -- 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. * CHOICE * 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 *
Lisa Marie Cacho is Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies and Asian American Studies, with affiliations in Gender and Womens Studies and English, at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign.
Acknowledgments 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