The Second by Carol Anderson

The Second by Carol Anderson

Winner of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles

From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment-and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception.

In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a "pro-gun" nor an "anti-gun" book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.

From the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless--revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished.

Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life--as surely as Philando Castile's, Tamir Rice's, Alton Sterling's--may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson's penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America.

Carol Anderson she joined the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War and was trained as a dental technician. When she became a civilian, she worked for a while as a dental technician, then as a legal secretary and then a professional photographer. It was her photography expertise, travels to Japan, and her experience with the Kansas landscape that inspired her to write Treasures From the Heartland. This book combines haiku poetry with many of her excellent photographs taken in Kansas and Japan. After retirement, she wrote her memories of Kansas in Images From a Small Town. Her book concentrates on individual stories, often humorous, from the past to the present day.

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ISBN 13	9781635574258
ISBN 10	1635574250
Title	The Second
Author	Carol Anderson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing
Year published	2021-06-01
Number of pages	272
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