Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the Nra and Contemporary Gun Culture Filindra Alexandra
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today.One-third of American adults--approximately 86 million people--own…
Specifikacia Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the Nra and Contemporary Gun Culture Filindra Alexandra
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today.One-third of American adults--approximately 86 million people--own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Frilindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies.Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary evidence, Race, Rights, and Rifles traces how this ideology emerged during the
Origins of the Bill of Rights
Race, Culture and Media