Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, former U.S. The Second is a must-read for students of American History.” She reveals the racial hypocrisy inherent in Second Amendment defenses of gun rights. “Carol Anderson brings her brilliant analytical framing to one of our most pressing issues: the proliferation of guns and the epidemic of American gun violence. Heather Cox Richardson, author of How the South Won the Civil War Anderson’s deft scholarship convincingly places the right to use force at the center of American citizenship, and warns that the Second Amendment, as it is currently exercised, guarantees that Black Americans will never be equal.” Anderson traces America’s racist history of gun laws from the 1639 Virginia colony’s prohibition on Africans carrying guns to the recent police murders of Breonna Taylor and Emantic Bradford, Jr., showing how calls for ‘law and order’ have concentrated guns in the hands of white people while defining Black gun ownership as a threat to society. In her trademark engaging and unflinching prose, Dr. Anderson shows that the Second Amendment was designed, and has always been implemented, to enable white Americans to dominate their Black neighbors. “In this extraordinarily important book, Dr. Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writer, author of The Substance of Hope This book does a great deal to change the parameters of that conversation.” Our stalemated gun rights debates have focused on the idea that the second amendment preserves liberty rather than its historic role in denying it. “The second amendment, as Carol Anderson deftly establishes here, was written in the blood of enslaved black people.
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