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Author Brandzel, Amy L., 1970- author.

Title Against citizenship : the violence of the normative / Amy L. Brandzel
Published Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Dissident feminisms
Dissident feminisms.
Contents Introduction : the violence of the normative -- The specters of citizenship : hate crimes and the fear of the repressed -- Intersectionalities lost and found : same-sex marriage law and the monstrosities of alliance -- Legal detours of U.S. empire : locating race and indigeneity in law, history, and Hawai'i -- Conclusion : in and out of time
Summary "Numerous activists and scholars have appealed for rights, inclusion, and justice in the name of "citizenship." Against Citizenship provocatively shows that there is nothing redeemable about citizenship, nothing worth salvaging or sustaining in the name of "community," practice, or belonging. According to Brandzel, citizenship is a violent dehumanizing mechanism that makes the comparative devaluing of human lives seem commonsensical, logical, and even necessary. Against Citizenship argues that whenever we work on behalf of citizenship, whenever we work toward including more types of peoples under its reign, we inevitably reify the violence of citizenship against nonnormative others. Brandzel's focus on three legal case studies--same-sex marriage law, hate crime legislation, and Native Hawaiian sovereignty and racialization--exposes how citizenship confounds and obscures the mutual processes of settler colonialism, racism, sexism, and heterosexism. In this way, Brandzel argues that citizenship requires anti-intersectionality, that is, strategies that deny the mutuality and contingency of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation--and how, oftentimes, progressive left activists and scholars follow suit. Against Citizenship is an impassioned plea for a queer, decolonial, anti-racist coalitional stance against the systemized human de/valuing and anti-intersectionalities of citizenship."--Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Citizenship -- United States -- Cases
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- Cases
Hate crimes -- United States -- Cases
Race relations -- Cases
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Citizenship
Hate crimes
Race relations
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Casebooks (Law)
Trials, litigation, etc.
Casebooks (Law)
Recueils de cas.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718164
ISBN 9780252098239
0252098234