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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction : "Why did you shoot him, sir?" -- "Sheep will never make a revolution" -- Keeping a ferocious monster in chains -- The right to kill negroes -- How can I be unarmed when my blackness is the weapon that you fear? -- Epilogue : racism lies around like a loaded weapon. |
| Summary |
Investigates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has been constructed from the start to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. |
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From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment-and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception.In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a "pro-gun" nor an "anti-gun" book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. From the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless--revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished. Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life--as surely as Philando Castile's, Tamir Rice's, Alton Sterling's--may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson's penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America. |
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Concurrent user level: 1 user |
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Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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Firearms -- Law and legislation. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment -- History.
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Firearms ownership -- Government policy -- United States -- History.
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Firearms ownership -- Government policy. |
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Firearms ownership. |
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Gun control -- United States -- History.
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Gun control. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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United States -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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Slavery -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Civil rights. |
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United States -- History -- 18th century.
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18th century |
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Race relations. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement. |
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Constitution (United States) |
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History.
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| Added Title |
Race and guns in a fatally unequal America |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine). Second. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021 9781635574258 (DLC) 2021931855 (OCoLC)1252628357 |
| ISBN |
9781635574265 electronic book |
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1635574269 electronic book |
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9781635574258 hardcover ; US edition |
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1635574250 hardcover ; US edition |
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9781526633682 hardcover ; UK edition |
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9781526633569 paperback |
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