Stand your ground
Subtitle: a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense
By: Caroline E. Light
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780807064665
Subjects: Self-defense (Law); Firearms; Social aspects; Civil rights; Law and legislation; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Author's note : mom the sharp-shooter; title: Introduction : when good citizenship is armed citizenship; title: "That great law of nature" : the origins of a selective self-defense culture; title: Defensive violence and the "true man" : the end of reconstruction and the duty to retreat; title: "A mighty power in the hands of the citizen" : justice and true manhood in the western borderlands; title: "Queer justice" and the sexual politics of lynching; title: "An American tradition" : the black paramilitary response to white supremacist terror and unequal protection; title: "The stuff of pulp fiction" : unreasonable women, vigilante heroes, and the rise of the armed citizen; title: Avoiding a "a fate worse than death" : how we learned to stand our ground; title: Conclusion : kill or be killed : an American mantra.