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Social Death
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.
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The Presumption of White Innocence
This essay considers how “the presumption of innocence” in self-defense cases not only functions through whiteness but also normalizes violence against the black and/or brown body. Consequentially, “the presumption of innocence” renders black victimhood and black innocence illegible.
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“You Just Don't Know How Much He Meant”: Deviancy, Death, and Devaluation
This article is an examination of the ways in which value is not ascribed to the lives and deaths of young Latino men. Because “Latino/a” functions as a signifier for social deviancy in the United States, the social and physical deaths of young Latino men are always already justified in mainstream media. Yet because certain practices and performances of young Latino masculinity are often constructed as the negative “excess” of gender and sexual norms, oftentimes young Latino men cannot be ascribed value through alternative representations either if they attempt to counter accusations of racialized social deviancy by providing evidence of gender and sexual normativity. This article provides a detailed examination of the dominant and alternative narratives that would not or could not ascribe social value to one such early death: Brandon Jesse Martinez Jr. (1980–2000).
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But Some of Us Are Wise
Arizona's House Bill 2281 outlaws the state's Mexican-American studies program and other ethnic studies programs. Cacho examines the centrality of \"feelings\" to Ethnic Studies debates and policies that exhibit a form of \"neoliberal racism\" and how how the politics of neoliberal racism attempts to contorl the means by which \"legitimacy\" is conferred or denied.
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White Entitlement and Other People’s Crimes
High school teenagers Morgan Manduley, Bradley Davidofsky, Adam Ketsdever, Nicholas Fileccia, Steven DeBoer, and Kevin Williams (ages 15–17) set out to “hunt” undocumented Mexican migrant workers on July 5, 2000. They cased an area near their homes in Rancho Peñasquitos, an affluent suburb of San Diego, California. They found Andres Roman Díaz (age 64) walking back from work, carrying groceries and drinking water. They shot him with BB guns from their Subaru station wagon, then got out of the car to chase him on foot. Roman ran back to the nursery where he worked, and the young men got
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Introduction
Hurricane Katrina decimated the poorest, the brownest, and the blackest neighborhoods along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. By almost all accounts, the people most devastated and the places most damaged were disproportionately black and impoverished. And while not all coverage was without sympathy, some articles’ portrayals of Katrina victims were disconcerting. News media and conservative weblogs stigmatized and criminalized poor African American victims of Hurricane Katrina, particularly the residents of New Orleans. Among the most publicized examples of these incriminating images were snapshots of black people allegedly “looting” abandoned grocery stores. Several bloggers juxtaposed two virtually
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Beyond Ethical Obligation
Oun Roo Chhay was ambushed by members of a gang that called itself the Local Asian Boyz (LAB) in the parking lot of his apartment building in the Rainer Valley neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He was 20 years old when he was murdered. Four young adults were arrested for his murder; three were convicted. Kim Ho Ma, only a high school sophomore, was among those convicted. Ma was tried as an adult because Washington state law mandates that 16 and 17 year olds be tried as adults for first-degree manslaughter. He was convicted and sentenced to thirty-eight months in prison.
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