On Civil Rights, Armed Citizens®, and Historical Overdose
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22157397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Light (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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/l9.1.7 |
| OpenAlex | W3038757740 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Today’s radically sovereign Armed Citizen®—a commodity fetish trademarked by the NRA—derives his representational and ethical power from fantasies of self-defensive heroism rooted in historical distortions that obscure the traces of armed settler colonialist violence and racial capitalism. Such historical “overdose” flattens anti-racist civil rights activism, making us “complaisant hostages” of a selective memory that serves self-destructive, necropolitical structures today
Capitalism · Civil rights · Civil society · Commodity · Criminology · Economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Law · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |