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...

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Main Authors: Lindsay Livingston, Alex Trimble Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2020-04-01
Series:Lateral
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25158/L9.1.5