Light, Caroline E., <br/><br/>
Stand your ground :  a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense / 
Caroline E. Light. 
 - xiii, 225 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>"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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016023101 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Self-defense (Law)--Social aspects--United States.<br/>Firearms--Law and legislation--Social aspects--United States.<br/>African Americans--Civil rights.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>KF9246  / .L54 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>345.73/04