Carol Anderson, "The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second Amendment 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.\xa0\nIn\xa0The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America\xa0(Bloomsbury, 2021)\xa0historian 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.\xa0The Second\xa0is neither a \u201cpro-gun\u201d nor an \u201canti-gun\u201d book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.\nThrough 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.\nDr. Carol Anderson\xa0is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of\xa0One Person, No Vote, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award;\xa0White Rage, a\xa0New York Times\xa0bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award;\xa0Bourgeois Radicals; and\xa0Eyes off the Prize. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Connect on Twitter @ProfCAnderson\nDr. Lee Pierce\xa0(they & she) is Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Communication at State University of New York at Geneseo and host of the podcast\xa0RhetoricLee Speaking. Connect with Lee on Twitter, Instagram, and Gmail @rhetoriclee\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law