Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected

by Lisa Marie Cacho

Book Overview

Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association

A necessary read that demonstrates the ways in which certain people are devalued without attention to social contexts

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814723764
• ISBN13: 9780814723760
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"