{"product_id":"the-second-race-and-guns-in-a-fatally-unequal-america-9781635574289","title":"The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e White Rage\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e-now w\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eith a new introduction and afterword from the author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Second\u003c\/i\u003e, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Rage\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Second\u003c\/i\u003e is neither a \"pro-gun\" nor an \"anti-gun\" book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eOne Person, No Vote\u003c\/i\u003e, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award; \u003ci\u003eWhite Rage\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Radicals\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eEyes off the Prize\u003c\/i\u003e; and a contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627210543378,"sku":"9781635574289","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9439f2a9-fac6-43db-bd81-82412d4b4506.jpg?v=1732672429","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-second-race-and-guns-in-a-fatally-unequal-america-9781635574289","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}