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Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment / Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution--2nd Amendment--History.
- United States.
- Constitution (United States).
- Firearms ownership--United States--History.
- Firearms ownership.
- Firearms--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- Firearms.
- Firearms and crime--United States--History.
- Firearms and crime.
- Militia.
- History.
- Firearms--Law and legislation.
- United States--Militia--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 237 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2018]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Electronic version: Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1939- Loaded.
- ISBN:
- 9780872867239
- 0872867234
- OCLC:
- 974677108
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