Loaded : a disarming history of the Second Amendment

Few arguments provoke debate more fiercely than those aimed at gun control in the US, and this book will become essential to that discussion.Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz strikes a nerve by not only challenging the idea of gun ownership as a sacred right essential to American identity, she confronts the racist origins of the 2nd Amendment. Dunbar-Ortiz presents the stories of African Americans and Native Americans whose freedom has been thwarted since the inception of the amendment.The author probes why Americans, like herself for a time, have long had an affinity for firearms, and links this history to the rise of white nationalism in the U.S.The author's recent book "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" was a critical and commercial success, selling 50,000 copies since publication in 2015.As a "people's history of the Second Amendment," LOADED will appeal to Howard Zinn's more broad, left-leaning, social justice readership.