Professor Christopher Parker is hosting a virtual book event with award-winning author, Professor Carol Anderson (Emory University) as a part of the Northwest African American Museum’s Juneteenth Week. They will be discussing her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Bloomsbury USA).
We hope you can attend what is sure to be an excellent discussion!
“In this extraordinarily important book, Dr. Anderson shows that the Second Amendment was designed, and has always been implemented, to enable white Americans to dominate their Black neighbors. In her trademark engaging and unflinching prose, Dr. Anderson traces America’s racist history of gun laws from the 1639 Virginia colony’s prohibition on Africans carrying guns to the recent police murders of Breonna Taylor and Emantic Bradford, Jr., showing how calls for ‘law and order’ have concentrated guns in the hands of white people while defining Black gun ownership as a threat to society. Anderson’s deft scholarship convincingly places the right to use force at the center of American citizenship, and warns that the Second Amendment, as it is currently exercised, guarantees that Black Americans will never be equal. — Heather Cox Richardson”
This event is free and will be held on June 16th at 5 pm PST. More information and instructions for attending this event can be found here.
