BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT: WGS Professor Caroline Light reads from her new book: Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_989011_0 SUMMARY: WGS Professor Caroline Light reads from her new book: Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense DESCRIPTION:

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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