TY  - BOOK
AU  - Light,Caroline E.
TI  - Stand your ground: a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense 
SN  - 9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - KF9246 .L54 2017
U1  - 345.73/04 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Boston
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Self-defense (Law)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Firearms
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
N1  - 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
ER  -