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Podcast
Publication Year
2022
Description
With tens of thousands of Americans dying every year from gun-related violence, firearm regulation is at the center of American political debate. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on this conversation by expanding an individual’s right to bear arms under the Second Amendment in New York Rife & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen (2022)
In this episode, we use critical race theory as a tool to explore the history of the Second Amendment, firearm ownership, and gun control policies in the United States. How are firearm regulations bound up in the legal and ideological infrastructure of white supremacy? What does the history of the Second Amendment tell us about race and racism in this country?
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Criminal Law | Law and Race | Race and Ethnicity | Second Amendment
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Center/Program
Studio for Law and Culture
Recommended Citation
Reis, Harry; Passas, Elias; Brazer, Drew; Faroghi, Christopher Sina; Anderson, Carol; Cobb, Jelani; Daniels, Jarrell; Philips, Meghna; and Ristroph, Alice, "CRT2 S2 Ep1: Gun/Control: The Criminalization of Black Gun Ownership in America" (2022). CRT2 Season 2. 1.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/crt2_2/1
Episode Details
Length: 1:00:59
Featuring:
Meghna Philip is a public defender and co-author of the amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen.
Jelani Cobb is Dean of the Columbia Journalism School.
Dr. Carol Anderson is a professor of African American Studies at Emory University.
Alice Ristroph is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School.
Jarrell Daniels is the Founder and Program Director of the Justice Ambassadors Youth Council, a project of the Columbia Center for Justice.
Production:
This episode was written, edited, and produced by Harry Reis, Elias Passas, Drew Brazer, and Christopher Sina Faorghi.