Good [Black] Guys With Guns
Performance and the Anti-Black Logic of US Gun Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsay Livingston, Lindsay Adamson Livingston (0000-0002-8613-0994, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Lateral (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2469-4053 • E-ISSN: 2469-4053 |
| Publisher | Cultural Studies Association (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.25158/l9.1.9 |
| OpenAlex | W3039382855 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
This article examines the police shooting of twenty-one-year-old E.J. Bradford at the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Alabama on November 22, 2018. After a brief investigation, the Alabama Attorney General's Office absolved the officer who shot Bradford of any wrongdoing. Through a close reading of the Alabama AG's report and a performance analysis of Bradford's actions that night, this article argues that Bradford behaved exactly as he was trained to as a concealed carry permit holder and former enlistee in the Army. Bradford was the epitome of the NRA's vaunted "good guy with a gun" who intervenes in a violent situation to save others' lives. However, within the context of the United States's gun culture, which envisions "good" gun owners as white and encourages police to rehearse responses that perpetuate anti-Black racism, Bradford was always going to be seen by police as suspect
Archaeology · Criminology · Officer · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Suspect · Wrongdoing · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · History · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |