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Social death : racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected /
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 ey...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Nation of newcomers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0814723756 0814723764 0814723772 0814725422 9780814723753 9780814723760 9780814723777 9780814725429 |