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Author Light, Caroline E., author.

Title Stand your ground : a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense / Caroline Light.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, 2017.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.7304 LIGHT    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  345.73 LIGHT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.73 LIGHT    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  345.73 LIGHT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  345.73 L62    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  345.73 LIGHT    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-221) and index.
Contents Author's note : mom the sharpshooter -- Introduction : when good citizenship is armed citizenship -- "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 -- Conclusion : kill or be killed, an American mantra.
Subject Self-defense (Law) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Firearms -- Law and legislation -- Social aspects -- United States.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Other Form: Online version: Light, Caroline E., author. Stand your ground Boston : Beacon Press, 2017 9780807064689 (DLC) 2016023420
ISBN 9780807064665 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0807064661 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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