@article{1479572,
      recid = {1479572},
      author = {Cacho, Lisa Marie, },
      title = {Social Death : Racialized Rightlessness and the  Criminalization of the Unprotected /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented  by the American Studies AssociationSocial 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 AssociationSocial 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479572},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814723777.001.0001},
}