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THE SECOND - CAROL ANDERSON KARTONIERT (TB)

'A provocative look at the racial context for Americans' right to bear arms' New York Times
Book Review  Editor's Choice The Second Amendment: The right of the people to keep and bear
arms  shall not be infringed. Throughout history  the Second Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States has protected the right to bear arms. For Black Americans  this has come with
the understanding that the moment they exercise this right (or the moment that they don't) 
their life - as surely as the lives of Philando Castile  Tamir Rice  Breonna Taylor - may be
snatched away in a single  fateful second. In The Second  historian and award-winning author
Carol Anderson illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment: from the seventeenth
century  when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own  carry or use a firearm 
to today  where measures to expand and curtail gun ownership continue to limit the freedoms and
power of Black Americans. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding
events of recent years  Anderson's investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about
guns but about anti-Blackness  revealing the magnitude of institutional racism in America
today.

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