RT Book
T1 The second: race and guns in a fatally unequal America
A1 Anderson, Carol
LA English
PP London Oxford New York New Delhi Sydney
PB Bloomsbury
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1907793100
AB 'A provocative look at the racial context for Americans' right to bear arms' New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice The Second Amendment: The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Throughout history, the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has protected the right to bear arms. For Black Americans, this has come with the understanding that the moment they exercise this right (or the moment that they don't), their life - as surely as the lives of Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor - may be snatched away in a single, fateful second. In The Second, historian and award-winning author Carol Anderson illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment: from the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry or use a firearm, to today, where measures to expand and curtail gun ownership continue to limit the freedoms and power of Black Americans. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of recent years, Anderson's investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, revealing the magnitude of institutional racism in America today
CN E185.61
SN 9781526633699
SN 1526633698
K1 United States : Constitution : 2nd Amendment : History
K1 African Americans : Civil rights : History
K1 Firearms ownership : United States : History
K1 gun control : United States : History
K1 Noirs américains - Droits - Histoire
K1 Armes à feu - Possession - États-Unis - Histoire
K1 Armes à feu - Contrôle - États-Unis - Histoire
K1 Politics & government
K1 Political structures: democracy
K1 Human rights, civil rights
K1 Politics and government
K1 United States : Race relations
K1 États-Unis - Relations raciales
K1 USA : Waffenrecht : Handfeuerwaffe : Rassismus