Social death : racialized rightlessness and the criminalization of the unprotected / Lisa Marie Cacho.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Nation of newcomers.
Main Author: Cacho, Lisa Marie
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2012], ©2012.
Series:Nation of newcomers.
Subjects:
Immigrants > Civil rights > United States.
Minorities > Civil rights > United States.
Unauthorized immigration > United States.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Criminal liability > United States.
Racism > United States.
Illegality > Social aspects > United States.
Noncitizens > United States.
Physical Description:xii, 224 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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.