White Supremacy as the Foundation of the Second Amendment

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 2, 2021

Carol Anderson, professor of African American Studies at Emory University and the author of White Rage and The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021), talks about her new book that traces the white supremacist history of the Second Amendment and how gun rights in the U.S. continue to discriminate against Black Americans.

→EVENT: Carol Anderson will appear (virtually) on Tuesday, June 8th at 7PM ET at Café con Libros.

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