Understanding Racist Activism

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Over the past three decades, Kathleen Blee has done more than any other social scientist to expand our understanding of racist activism. Here, she presents and reflects upon her prodigious body of work, interrogating common assumptions as well as her own findings. Both a deeply honest portrait of the perils and payoffs of studying racist hate and an incisive examination of white supremacy's past and future, this volume is expansive in every sense-traversing historical periods, geographic boundaries, and theoretical orientations. Understanding Racist Activism is an indispensible resource for researchers, policy-makers, and anyone else concerned with the specter of organized racism.
David Cunningham, Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

For over three decades Kathleen Blee has produced ground-breaking scholarship on the contemporary US far-right. 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. This collection of her work is much needed and a "must-read" for a broad range of students and anyone else interested in learning more about where some of the current political polarization emanates from.
Peter Simi, Director of Earl Babbie Research Centre, Chapman University, USA

From one of the very best scholars of the American racist right-an unusually brave scholar who examines it from the inside-we now have a collection of her superb articles on investigative methods as well as the substance of its ideology and organization. The book is both a guidebook for those who want to study the far-right and a fine introduction to general readers who want to understand it.
Linda Gordon, Professor of Humanities, New York University, USA

Kathleen Blee is unparalleled in her knowledge of America's white supremacist movement. For decades, she has delved personally into the worlds of racists, taking the time to hear them out and learn about their real lives. This makes her work uniquely insightful. Anyone who wants to really know the world of white supremacy needs to read Blee's masterful research.
Heidi Beirich, Director of Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, USA