Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture

In: Chicago Studies in American Politics Series

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Historical Foundations -- Chapter 1. Republican Ideology in Early America -- Chapter 2. An Exclusive Vision of Virtue and Citizenship -- Chapter 3. Militias and the Institutionalization of Ascriptive Republicanism -- Chapter 4. Cultural Transmission -- Part Two: The Origins and Worldview of the NRA -- Chapter 5. The Emergence of the NRA -- Chapter 6. An Organization of White Men -- Chapter 7. Political Virtue -- Chapter 8. Political Corruption -- Chapter 9. The NRA's Theory of Democracy -- Part Three: Ascriptive Republicanism in Contemporary White Public Opinion -- Chapter 10. Ascriptive Republicanism and White Gun Attitudes Today -- Chapter 11. From "Stand Your Ground" to "Stand Back and Stand By" -- Conclusion. Democratic Stability in Peril -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.