Carnegie Mellon University

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment


Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Friday, September 6, 2019
4:00-5:30 pm

Connan Room
Cohon University Center

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She’s the author of many scholarly books, including An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon, 2014); The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America (Random House, 1977; University of Nebraska Press, 2013); Roots of Resistance: Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680–1980 (University of California, 1980; University of Oklahoma Press, 2007). She has also published three memoirs, including Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (Verso, 1997; University of Oklahoma Press, 2006) and Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960–75 (City Light Books, 2002). Professor Dunbar-Ortiz is featured in the feminist history film, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry.

Professor Dunbar-Ortiz will speak about her new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment (City Lights Books, 2018).

This lecture is co-sponsored by the University Lecture Series (ULS).