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Social death

Cacho, Lisa Marie.

Social death racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected / [electronic resource] : Lisa Marie Cacho. - New York : New York University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (240 p.) - Nation of newcomers: immigrant history as American history . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the violence of value -- White entitlement and other people's crimes -- Beyond ethical obligation -- Grafting terror onto illegality -- Immigrant rights as civil rights -- Conclusion: wreck in the road: racialized hauntings of the devalued dead.

9780814723777 0814723756


Illegality--Social aspects--United States.
Racism--United States.
Criminal liability--United States.
Marginality, Social--United States.
Illegal aliens--United States.
Minorities--Civil rights--United States.
Immigrants--Civil rights--United States.


Electronic books.

JV6456 / .C33 2012

323.173