Inside Organized Racism - Women in the Hate Movement

Informationen zum Autor Kathleen M. Blee is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (California! 1991)! editor of No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest (1998)! coauthor of The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (2000)! and coeditor of Feminism and Antiracism: International Struggles for Justice (2001). Klappentext "An important contribution to our understanding of hate in America."—Morris Dees, Founder and President, Southern Poverty Law Center "[An] innovative and superb probe into organized racism. [Blee's] findings are both significant and alarming. These women do not fit the common stereotypes. Their backgrounds are more normal than we may want to believe."—William Brustein, author of The Logic of Evil Zusammenfassung A disturbing look at the hidden world of organized racism, this text focuses on women, the newest recruiting targets of racist groups and crucial to their campaign for racial supremacy. Through personal interviews, the author dispels many misconceptions of organized racism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Crossing a Boundary  BECOMING A RACIST 1. The Racist Self  2. Whiteness  3· Enemies  LIVING AS A RACIST 4· The Place of Women  5· A Culture of Violence  Conclusion: Lessons  Appendix 1: Racist Groups  Appendix 2: Methodology  Appendix 3: Antiracist Organizations  Notes  Bibliography  Acknowledgments  Index  Illustrations

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen M. Blee, Blee Kathleen M.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2003
• EAN: 9780520240551
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24055-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General