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SUMMARY:Reception celebrating the publication of WGS Director of Undergraduate Studies Caroline Light’s New Book
DESCRIPTION:<p> </p><p><drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="75f77403-cc57-4c49-a3cf-6ff19119296f" data-align="left" alt="Stand Your Ground cover image"></drupal-media>Please join WGS for a reception celebrating the appearance of WGS Director of Undergraduate Studies Caroline Light's new book <em>Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-defense.<!--break--></em></p><p><strong>Wednesday, March 22, 5-6 pm<br>WGS Lounge, Boylston Ground Floor<br>Refreshments will be served. No RSVP required.<br>Copies of the book will be raffled off to students.</strong></p><p><em>Stand Your Ground</em> 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.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
LOCATION:Boylston Hall, 5 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
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