Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right)

Doing so reveals a disturbing picture of how fairly ordinary white people learn to embrace the vicious ideas and dangerous agendas of white supremacism. Discussing topics such as emotional issues in research, the place of violence and hate in white supremacism, and how women are involved in racial terrorism, Blee makes use of a range of sources, including oral histories, ethnographic observations, and interviews, to shape her findings. Blee's work on racist activism, alongside new essays on the theories, methods, and approaches of studying racist activism. White supremac

Kathleen M. . Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA

Her body of work represents the most insightful and sustained effort to help us understand the individuals and organizations that continue to mobilize around hatred and fear and some notion of racial and cultural exclusivity. Understanding Racist Activism is an indispensible resource for researchers, policy-makers, and anyone else concerned with the specter of organized racism. Louis, USAFor over three decades Kathleen Blee has produced ground-breaking scholarship on the contemporary US far-right. Linda Gordon, Professor of Humanities, New York University, USA Kathleen Blee is unparalleled in her knowledge of America's white supremacist movement. This makes her work uniquely insightful. For decades, she has delved personally into the worlds of racists, t