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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-101635574285
ISBN-139781635574289
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Book TitleSecond : Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicConstitutions, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement
GenrePolitical Science
AuthorCarol Anderson
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal323.1196/073
SynopsisFrom 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-now with a new introduction and afterword from the author. In The Second, historian and award-winning author 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-revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished. Throughout American history, from the seventeenth century to the twenty first, the Second has meant this: That the second a Black person exercises the right to bear arms, 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., 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--now with a new introduction and afterword from the author., 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 -now w ith a new introduction and afterword from the author. 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.
LC Classification NumberKF3941.A96 2023
