From a duty to retreat to stand your ground: The race and gender politics of do-it-yourself-defense

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 292-298

  Light, Caroline ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

castle doctrine; duty to retreat; Jordan Davis; neoliberalism; NRA; Renisha McBride; security state; self defense; stand your ground; Trayvon Martin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956679643     PISSN: 15327086     EISSN: 1552356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532708615604953     Document Type: Review

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46. Childress S., (2012, 31). Is there racial bias in "stand your ground" laws? Frontline. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/is-there-racial-bias-in-stand-your-ground-laws/
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48. Faludi S., (2007). The terror dream: Fear and fantasy in Post-9/11 America. New York, NY: Metropolitan Books.
49. Feimster C., (2009). Southern horrors: Women and the politics of rape and lynching. Cambridge. MA: Harvard University Press.
50. Franks M. A., (2014, 3). Stand your ground's woman problem: Laws expanding self-defense raise questions about gender as well as race. The Huffington Post. Available from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-anne-franks/stand-your-grounds-woman-b-4886650.html
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52. Hall J. D., (1984). "The mind that burns in each body": Women, rape, and racial violence. Southern Exposure, 12, 6.
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62. O'Brien K., Forrest W., Lynott D., Daly M., (2013). Racism, gun ownership and fun control: Biased attitudes in US whites. influence policy decisions. PLoS ONE 8 (10): e77552. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077552
63. Redfield H. V., (1880). Homicide, North and South: Being a comparative view of crime against the person in several parts of the United States. Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott.
64. Ross P. L., (2007). The transmogrification of self-defense by national rifle association-inspired statutes: From the doctrine of retreat to the right to stand your ground. Southern University Law Review. 1-46.
65. Suk J., (2009). At home in the law: How the domestic violence revolution is transforming privacy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
66. Traister R., (2014, 23). When Michael Dunn compared himself to a rape victim, he was following an old, racist script. New Republic. Avilable from http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116712/michael-dunn-compared-himself-rape-victim
67. Travers T., (2005, 15). Mayor bright suggests crime solution: Buy a gun. WSFA TV.com. Available from http://www.wsfa.com/story/3852587/mayor-bright-suggests-crime-solution-buy-a-gun
68. Waldman M., (2014). The second amendment: A biography. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
69. Wiegman R., (1995). American anatomies: Theorizing race and gender. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
70. Williams P. J., (1991). Alchemy of race and rights: Diary of a law professor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.