Now, why is Tamir Rice the 12-year-old a threat and Kyle Rittenhouse not a threat?

That is what I'm getting at here in the second.

Hi, and welcome back to our summer season of Amicus.

This is Slate's podcast about the law and the rule of law and the courts.

I'm Dahlia Lithwig.

I cover these things for Slate Magazine.

And as we do every summer, we like to step back from the daily TikTok of the law and the

Supreme Court docket and to look at some books and films that are reshaping, maybe in big

ways, the way that we think about the law.

This week our show lies right on the seam of two issues that we discuss so often on this

show, racial justice on the one hand and the second amendment on the other.

Our guest is one of our very favorite guests, historian Carol Anderson.

Professor Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American

Studies at Emory University.

She is the author of One Person No Vote, longlisted for the National Book Award and a finalist

for the Penn John Kenneth Galbraith Award.

Her book, White Rage, was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the National Book

Critics Circle Award and she was named a Guggenheim Fellow for constitutional studies.

Carol Anderson's new book is called The Second, it was published in June by Bloomsbury

Press.

The second explores the ways in which the second amendment, ostensibly conferring the right

to bear arms upon all Americans, was actually conceived as and continues to be, as she puts

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