by David Yamane | Sep 21, 2022 | Black Lives Matter, Data, Gun Culture, January 6, Light Over Heat, publication, race
A colleague, Ryan Jerome Lecount of Hamline University, pointed me to a recently published study of how race, support for Black Lives Matter, and gun ownership shape people’s views of protesters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The results are interesting and...
by David Yamane | Dec 4, 2021 | Books, Gun Culture, Gun Culture 2.0, publication
As mentioned the other day, I have finally gotten the pitch for my book on Gun Culture 2.0 into the hands of some literary agents. Now the waiting game begins. In the mean time, below you will find the provisional table of contents for the book to whet your appetite....
by David Yamane | Nov 30, 2021 | Books, Gun Culture, My Experience, publication
I stepped out of the social media fray for a few days this past weekend to commemorate the moment when my wife Sandy and I committed our lives to each other at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC in 2013. But I didn’t stop working on my book, provisionally titled...
by David Yamane | Jun 23, 2021 | Data, Gun Culture, gun ownership, LGBT, publication, Sociological Perspectives, sociology
For the past 18 months, I have been co-editing, with Trent Steidley of the University of Denver, a special issue of the scholarly journal, Sociological Perspectives. The theme is “A Sociology of Firearms for the 21st Century.” A major goal we had in...
by David Yamane | Nov 26, 2019 | academic bias, Gun Culture, publication
A couple of years ago, I was asked to write the concluding chapter to a book called Understanding America’s Gun Culture. My chapter would be titled, “What’s Next?” Unfortunately, chapters in edited scholarly books are where ideas go to die. As one scholar put it:...
