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Negroes and the Gun - The Black Tradition of Arms (Paperback)
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Negroes and the Gun - The Black Tradition of Arms (Paperback)
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Chronicling the underappreciated black tradition of bearing arms
for self-defense, this book presents an array of examples reaching
back to the pre--Civil War era that demonstrate a willingness of
African American men and women to use firearms when necessary to
defend their families and communities. From Frederick Douglass's
advice to keep "a good revolver" handy as defense against slave
catchers to the armed self-protection of Monroe, North Carolina,
blacks against the KKK chronicled in Robert Williams's "Negroes
with Guns," it is clear that owning firearms was commonplace in the
black community.
Nicholas Johnson points out that this story has been submerged
because it is hard to reconcile with the dominant narrative of
nonviolence during the civil rights era. His book, however,
resolves that tension by showing how the black tradition of arms
maintained and demanded a critical distinction between private
self-defense and political violence.
Johnson also addresses the unavoidable issue of young black men
with guns and the toll that gun violence takes on many in the inner
city. He shows how complicated this issue is by highlighting the
surprising diversity of views on gun ownership in the black
community. In fact, recent Supreme Court affirmations of the right
to bear arms resulted from cases led by black plaintiffs.
Surprising and informative, this well-researched book strips away
many stock assumptions of conventional wisdom on the issue of guns
and the black freedom struggle.
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