02412nam 2200601Ia 450 991045166790332120200520144314.00-19-028143-X1-280-52338-70-19-802143-71-4294-0736-0(CKB)1000000000465871(EBL)272390(OCoLC)466426882(SSID)ssj0000211518(PQKBManifestationID)11175556(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211518(PQKBWorkID)10311364(PQKB)10352225(MiAaPQ)EBC272390(Au-PeEL)EBL272390(CaPaEBR)ebr10278215(CaONFJC)MIL52338(EXLCZ)99100000000046587119901012d1991 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNo duty to retreat[electronic resource] violence and values in American history and society /Richard Maxwell BrownNew York Oxford University Press19911 online resource (279 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-504510-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-251) and index.Contents; 1 No Duty to Retreat in Law and the American Mind; 2 The Gunfighter: The Reality Behind the Myth; 3 California Conflict and the American Dream; 4 The Persistence of No Duty to Retreat: Crime, Law, and Society in America from the 1850's to the Present; 5 Conclusion: No Duty to Retreat in Retrospect and Prospect; Notes; Index;A discussion of crime, law and society in the USA, which demonstrates that surges in crime since the 1950's have coincided with the emergence of the post-industrial society. It examines the growing popularity of the concept that persons under physical attack have the right to defend themselves.ViolenceUnited StatesHistoryValuesUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.ViolenceHistory.ValuesHistory.303.6/0973Brown Richard Maxwell885809MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451667903321No duty to retreat1977907UNINA02712nam 2200601Ia 450 991078182240332120200520144314.00-8166-5377-1(CKB)1000000000484860(EBL)334221(OCoLC)567946907(SSID)ssj0000139263(PQKBManifestationID)11144861(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139263(PQKBWorkID)10005821(PQKB)11218320(OCoLC)214085023(MdBmJHUP)muse33405(Au-PeEL)EBL334221(CaPaEBR)ebr10215803(CaONFJC)MIL525795(MiAaPQ)EBC334221(EXLCZ)99100000000048486020070706d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDigitizing race[electronic resource] visual cultures of the Internet /Lisa NakamuraMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (260 p.)Electronic mediations ;23Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4613-9 0-8166-4612-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-237) and index.Introduction: digital racial formations and networked images of the body -- "Ramadan is almoast here!": the visual culture of AIM buddies, race, gender, and nation on the Internet -- Alllooksame?: mediating visual cultures of race on the Web -- The social optics of race and networked interfaces in The matrix trilogy and Minority report -- Avatars and the visual culture of reproduction on the Web -- Measuring race on the Internet: users, identity, and cultural difference in the United States -- Epilogue: the racio-visual logic of the Internet.Lisa Nakamura, a leading scholar in the examination of race in digital media, looks at the emergence of race-, ethnic-, and gender-identified visual cultures through popular yet rarely evaluated uses of the Internet.While popular media depict people of color and women as passive audiences, Nakamura argues that they use the Internet to vigorously articulate their own types of virtual community, avatar bodies, and racial politics.Electronic mediations ;v. 23.InternetTelecommunicationInternet.Telecommunication.004.678Nakamura Lisa696944MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781822403321Digitizing race3815631UNINA