[Leica] Armed *White* America?

[kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

richard sed:

>For those with the book though, or Kyle our man if you are not too
>busy signing autographs, I note that the photo excerpts have one
>African American and one woman that appears to be Asian descended.
>Armed White America? What is the spread in the book like?

The Newsweek photo essay is not a random sampling from the book. It was 
based on two things 1) a list of images some group or person at Newsweek 
thought were interesting, and 2) from that group, people that I could 
convince to let Newsweek call them so that they could read their quotations. 
The book does indeed contain non white people. it also contains several 
immigrants and several non-heterosexuals, a bunch of democrats, at least one 
Buddhist, a socialist, an anarchist and various other people who defied my 
own stereotypes going into this. 

Possibly interesting to note: Of the subsets of "gun owners" one of the most 
difficult to convince to be photographed was middle class African Americans, 
many of whom expressed concern at participating in or reinforcing a 
stereotype.

This book, like most photography books, is made up entirely of the subset of 
"people willing to be photographed" and suffers from that, indeed.

kc