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Title Stand your ground : a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense / Caroline Light.
Author Light, Caroline E., author.
Publisher Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Description xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 EI-Adult Collection  345.7304 LIG Nearby on shelf  30626003094410 10-09-19  AVAILABLE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Author's note : mom the sharp-shooter -- Introduction : when good citizenship is armed citizenship -- "That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture -- Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction and the duty to retreat -- "A mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands -- "Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching -- "An American tradition" : the black paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection -- "The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen -- Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground -- Conclusion : Kill or be killed - an American mantra.
Other edition Online version:
Light, Caroline E., author. Stand your ground Boston : Beacon Press, 2017 9780807064689
Subject Self-defense (Law) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Firearms -- Law and legislation -- Social aspects -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
ISBN 9780807064665
0807064661