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The second race and guns in a fatally unequal America

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.

Main Author: Anderson, Carol (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Subjects:
Firearms > Law and legislation > United States > History.
Firearms ownership > Government policy > United States > History.
Gun control > United States > History.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
United States > Race relations.
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.
Physical Description: 258 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-239) and index.
ISBN: 9781635574258
1635574250
Author Notes: Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of One Person, No Vote , longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award; White Rage , a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Bourgeois Radicals ; and Eyes off the Prize . She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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