Introduction: US Gun Culture and the Performance of Racial Sovereignty
This introduction examines gun culture in the United States and argues that it is a product of the longstanding practices of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and misogyny that have shaped life in the United States. Invoking an anthropological definition of culture, it argues that gun violence is...
Main Authors: | Lindsay Livingston, Alex Trimble Young |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Cultural Studies Association
2020-04-01
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Series: | Lateral |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.25158/L9.1.5 |
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