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Virtual Event – Carol Anderson

June 6, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Magic City Books is proud to welcome Carol Anderson for a virtual event celebrating her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. 

Carol Anderson is the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, and her new book, The Second, is an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment–and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception.

This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform and Facebook Live. To register in advance for the event on Zoom visit: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C-SGwWgCRXezErbmgUHjnA.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email with details on how to join the event on Sunday June 6 at 2:00 pm CT.

The Second will be published by Bloomsbury Publishing on June 1, 2021. To pre-order a copy from Magic City Books visit: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-second/509.

About The Second

In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a “pro-gun” nor an “anti-gun” book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans.

From the seventeenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless–revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished.

Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don’t), their life–as surely as Philando Castile’s, Tamir Rice’s, Alton Sterling’s–may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson’s penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America.

Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of One Person, No Vote, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award; White Rage, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; Bourgeois Radicals; and Eyes off the Prize. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow for Constitutional Studies. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Details

Date:
June 6, 2021
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Venue

Magic City Books
221 E. Archer St.
Tulsa, OK 74103 United States

Organizer

Magic City Books