How to do the right thing: Carceral infrastructures, criminal knowledges, and the moral debt of mestizaje
Garcia, Brenda Gisela
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Title
How to do the right thing: Carceral infrastructures, criminal knowledges, and the moral debt of mestizaje
Author(s)
Garcia, Brenda Gisela
Issue Date
2024-07-11
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Rosas, Gilberto
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Rosas, Gilberto
Committee Member(s)
Moodie, Ellen
Cacho, Lisa M
Manalansan, Martin
Department of Study
Anthropology
Discipline
Anthropology
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Debt, Mestizaje, Normativity, Lawfulness,
Abstract
How to Do the Right Thing: Carceral Infrastructures, Criminal Knowledge, and the Moral Debt of Mestizaje, proposes the concept of the moral debt of mestizaje to explain the justification of suffering and punishment that occurs under the violences of racial capitalism. The moral debt of mestizaje, I argue, is a form of carcerality that justifies punishment and suffering outside the confines of a prison. This dissertation theorizes the moral debt through the integration of mestizaje in racial capitalism to understand how racial formation in Mexico assigns worth and value to normative subjects. The push for normativity emphasizes the distinction between worthy subjects that deserve security versus those that deserve punishment. It is an ideological cage of the state that justifies suffering and condemns certain populations to death.
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