American Violence

Introduction: Violence at the Center, 1: Managed Freedom: Conquest, Slavery, and Coercion in the American Liberal State, 2: Frozen Violence: Understanding the Permanence of Genocide Against American Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples Within the United States and Canada, 3: Instruments of Power: Between Violence and Care in the History of Atlantic Slavery, 4: Black Fungibility, 5: It is Heritage: Objectifying the Black Body in American Bioarchaeology, 6: Forged through the Crucible of Interracial Violence: New York State Lynchings and the Formation of a Northern White Identity in the Late-Nineteenth Century, 7: English Tradition, American Violence: The Origins of American Gun Regulation, 8: "Endangering the Peace and Safety of the State": Violence, Self-Defense, and Limitations on Constitutional Protections for The People, 9: Vigilantism and Self-Defense, 10: Disarming Analogies: The Difference Between Police and Soldiers' Right to Lethal Violence, 11: Momma You Was in the Riot!: Black Maternal Activism and Civil Unrest, 12: Antigone on the Border: Violence, Damage, and Desire in the US-Mexico Borderlands, 13: The Slow Violence of Wrongful Convictions: Frank Sterling and the Human Cost of the Carceral State, 14: Violence as Memory, Memory as Violence: The Case of the 1964 "Mississippi Burning" Murders, 15: Distorted Chronologies: DARVO and the Weaponization of Self-Defense, 16: The Iron River: How the Second Amendment Shapes Global Conflict