WGS Professor Caroline Light reads from her new book: Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense

Harvard Book Store welcomes Harvard University's Director of Undergraduate Studies in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality CAROLINE LIGHT for a discussion of her latest book, Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense. 

Stand Your Ground explores the development of the American right to “self-defense,” and reveals how the “duty to retreat” from threat was transformed into a selective right to kill. In her rigorous genealogy, Light traces white America’s attachment to racialized, lethal self-defense, from the original “castle laws” to the radicalization of the NRA.

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