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020 _a9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z9780807064689 (e-book)
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_cDLC
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050 0 0 _aKF9246
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100 1 _aLight, Caroline E.,
245 1 0 _aStand your ground :
_ba history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense /
_cCaroline E. Light.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bBeacon Press,
_c[2017]
300 _axiii, 225 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _a"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.
650 0 _aSelf-defense (Law)
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFirearms
_xLaw and legislation
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xCivil rights.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aLight, Caroline E., author.
_tStand your ground
_dBoston : Beacon Press, 2017
_z9780807064689
_w(DLC) 2016023420
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