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Loaded - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Loaded

A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Buch | Softcover
236 Seiten
2018
City Lights Books (Verlag)
978-0-87286-723-9 (ISBN)
CHF 23,55 inkl. MwSt
A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States
"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books

"If . . . anyone at all really wants to 'get to the root causes of gun violence in America,' they will need to start by coming to terms with even a fraction of what Loaded proposes."—Los Angeles Review of Books

"Her analysis, erudite and unrelenting, exposes blind spots not just among conservatives, but, crucially, among liberals as well. . . . As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence, Loaded is an indispensable book."—The New Republic

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, is a deeply researched—and deeply disturbing—history of guns and gun laws in the United States, from the original colonization of the country to the present. As historian and educator Dunbar-Ortiz explains, in order to understand the current obstacles to gun control, we must understand the history of U.S. guns, from their role in the "settling of America" and the early formation of the new nation, and continuing up to the present.

Praise for Loaded:

"Dunbar-Ortiz's argument will be disturbing and unfamiliar to most readers, but her evidence is significant and should not be ignored."—Publishers Weekly

" . . . gun love is as American as apple pie—and that those guns have often been in the hands of a powerful white majority to subjugate minority natives, slaves, or others who might stand in the way of the broadest definition of Manifest Destiny."—Kirkus Reviews

"Trigger warning! This is a superb and subtle book, not an intellectual safe space for confirming your preconceptions—whatever those might be—but rather a deeply necessary provocation."—Christian Parenti, author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. After receiving her PhD in history at the University of California at Los Angeles, she taught in the newly established Native American Studies Program at California State University, Hayward, and helped found the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Women’s Studies. Her 1977 book The Great Sioux Nation was the fundamental document at the first international conference on Indigenous peoples of the Americas, held at the United Nations’ headquarters in Geneva. Dunbar-Ortiz is the author or editor of many books, including her acclaimed An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. She is the recipient of the Cultural Freedom Prize for Lifetime Achievement by the Lannan Foundation, and she lives in San Francisco, CA.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Gun Love

Chapter 1: Historical Context

Chapter 2: Savage War

Chapter 3: Slave Patrols

Chapter 4: Confederate Guerrillas to Outlaw Icons

Chapter 5: Myth of the Hunter

Chapter 6: The Second Amendment as a Covenant

Chapter 7: Mass Shootings

Chapter 8. White Nationalists, the Militia Movement, and Tea Party Patriots

Chapter 9: Eluding and Resisting the Historical White Supremacy of the Second Amendment

Conclusion: History is Not Past

Notes

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie City Lights Open Media
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Monroe, OR
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 177 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-87286-723-4 / 0872867234
ISBN-13 978-0-87286-723-9 / 9780872867239
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