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