An edition of Stand your ground
(2017)
Stand your ground
a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense
by Caroline E. Light
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Stand your ground: a history of America's love affair with lethal self-defense
2017, Beacon Press
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0807064661 9780807064665
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Table of Contents
Author's note : mom the sharp-shooter
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
"A 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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