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Introduction: gun love -- Historical context -- Savage war -- Slave patrols -- Confederate guerrillas to outlaw icons -- Myth of the hunter -- The Second Amendment as a covenant -- Mass shootings -- White nationalists, the Militia movement, and Tea Party patriots -- Eluding and resisting the historical white supremacy of the Second Amendment -- Conclusion: history is not past

Dunbar-Ortiz's odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever changed American society. In a new afterword, the author reflects on her fast-paced life fifty years ago, in particular as a movement activist and in relationships with men.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reviews Bloodbath Nation, a poignant exploration of the painful, studiously ignored truths about gun culture in the U.S. To grapple with the epidemic of gun violence, she writes, requires confronting deeper truths about white supremacy, settler-colonialism, and the U.S. history of enslavement.

"Nation of immigrants" discourse is generally used to counter xenophobic fears, but the ideology behind it also works to erase the scourge of settler colonialism, the lives of Indigenous people, and the history of enslaved Africans and their descendants.

The United States was founded as an empire on conquered land, and firearms manufacturing was one of the country's first successful modern industries. Gun proliferation and gun violence today are among its legacies.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

The author met Betita Martinez in August 1969 in New Mexico, were Martinez had recently relocated from New York City to support and work with the Alianza Federal de Mercedes and had started the newspaper of the movement, El Grito del Norte. At the time the author met Martinez, she had helped start the Women's Liberation Movement, which first gripped national attention in August 1968 demonstrating at the Miss America pageant. Since then, the author claimed Martinez as a mentor, and for the next two years they corresponded by letters and phone calls. And the author visited her again in New Mexico, during the time of campus strikes all over the country protesting the US bombing of Cambodia. The author had moved to New Orleans early that year to organize in the South, and she was driving to speak at student rallies in Albuquerque, San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Adapted from the source document.