Alexandra Filindra
Author
Language
English
Description
An eye-opening examination of the ties between American gun culture and white male supremacy from the American Revolution to today.
One-third of American adults, approximately 86 million people, own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One-third of American adults;some 86 million people;own firearms. This is not just for protection or hunting. Today it is common to associate US gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, but Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that gun-centric ideology rests on a very old, but different foundation;a belief system dating back to the American Revolution that fuses republican notions of civic duty with...