Stand your ground : a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense /
Light, Caroline E.,
Stand your ground : a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense / Caroline E. Light. - xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 -- "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.
9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2016023101
Self-defense (Law)--Social aspects--United States.
Firearms--Law and legislation--Social aspects--United States.
African Americans--Civil rights.
KF9246 / .L54 2017
345.73/04
Stand your ground : a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense / Caroline E. Light. - xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 -- "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.
9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2016023101
Self-defense (Law)--Social aspects--United States.
Firearms--Law and legislation--Social aspects--United States.
African Americans--Civil rights.
KF9246 / .L54 2017
345.73/04