Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment /

Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- author.
Imprint:	San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2018]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	City Lights Open Media City Lights Open Media.
Subject:	United States. -- Constitution. -- 2nd Amendment -- History. Constitution (United States) Firearms ownership -- United States -- History. Firearms -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History. Firearms and crime -- United States -- History. Firearms and crime. Firearms -- Law and legislation. Firearms ownership. Militia. United States -- Militia -- History. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12282440

Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:	0872867242 9780872867246 9780872867239
Digital file characteristics:	text file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 18, 2018).
Summary:	A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States.
Other form:	Print version: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939- Loaded. San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2017] 9780872867239
Publisher's no.:	MWT12035293

Table of Contents:

Introduction: gun love
Historical context
Savage war
Slave patrols
Confederate guerrillas to outlaw icons
Myth of the hunter
The Second Amendment as a covenant
Mass shootings
White nationalists, the Militia movement, and Tea Party patriots
Eluding and resisting the historical white supremacy of the Second Amendment
Conclusion: history is not past.