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Folge 66: Fatally Unequal - Race and Guns in America

Folge 66: Fatally Unequal - Race and Guns in America

Quo Vadis USA? vor 4 Jahren

Race and Guns in America

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Quo Vadis USA?

93 Episoden

Der Podcast des Heidelberg Center for American Studies

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On May 14, a young white man opened fire at a grocery store in a
black Buffalo neighborhood, leaving ten people dead and three
more injured. The shooting was one of the deadliest in recent
American history, and the suspect clearly targeted a minority
group, just like the gunman who killed nine Black worshipers at a
church in Charleston in 2015; the perpetrator who murdered 11
Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018; and the
gunman who killed 23 people, many of them Latino, in El Paso in
2019. Once more, the HCA podcast looks at gun violence in the
United States and particularly at how minority groups become the
deadly targets of white supremacists. Anja Schüler talks to
historian Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor of
African American Studies at Emory University and the author of
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.