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The Second : race and guns in a fatally unequal America / Carol Anderson.

By: Anderson, CarolMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022Description: 258 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9781635574258; 1635574250Other title: Race and guns in a fatally unequal AmericaSubject(s): Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History | Firearms ownership -- Government policy -- United States -- History | Gun control -- United States -- History | Slavery -- Civil rights -- United States -- History | African Americans -- Civil rights | Firearms -- Law and legislation | Firearms ownership -- Government policy | Gun control | Race relationsDDC classification: 323.1196/073 Online resources: Click here to access online
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Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: New Arrivals - February 1st to 29th 2024
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-239) and index.

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

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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