Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement - Hardcover

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).

"An insightful view of organized racism focusing on women in the Movement. Thoroughly researched and well written. An important contribution to our understanding hate in America."—Morris Dees, Founder and President, Southern Poverty Law Center

"Combining observations of racist group events, examinations of published and distributed racist documents, and in-depth, unstructured life history interviews of a representative sample of women members of a variety of U.S. racist groups, Blee offers an innovative and superb probe into organized racism. Her 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: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933

"Kathleen Blee has produced a fascinating account of women in extreme racist movements. She analyses the place of women in the racist culture of violence, and in so doing she challenges many preconceptions. Inside Organized Racism is a courageous, thoughtful and important book."—Michael Billig, author of Rock'n'Roll Jews

"Chock-full of insights about racist movements and the women drawn to them, this book effectively demonstrates the contradictions and tensions within and among these women. Blee does a wonderful job of showing how these extremist groups not only depart from mainstream assumptions and actions but are also connected to mainstream ideas and organizations. Given the physical danger and personal horror Blee encountered in carrying out this research, her work is admirable in its depth and its attempt to balance understanding with criticism of people she found abhorrent. A chilling account of the banality of organized racism."—Rebecca Klatch, author of A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s

"This is an extraordinary book. It exposes and illuminates the inner world of organized racism in the U.S. today, exploring not only what racists say, but also how they are formed. Focusing on the often ignored voices of women in the movement, Blee succeeds in giving us the widest, most nuances and current view of the organized racist underground in the U.S. Her analysis of issues of gender, culture and racism are both penetrating and vital for all who care about the present and future direction of American society."—Mark Weitzman, Director of the National Task Force Against Hate, Simon Wiesenthal Center

"An insightful view of organized racism focusing on women in the Movement. Thoroughly researched and well written. An important contribution to our understanding hate in America."Morris Dees, Founder and President, Southern Poverty Law Center

"Combining observations of racist group events, examinations of published and distributed racist documents, and in-depth, unstructured life history interviews of a representative sample of women members of a variety of U.S. racist groups, Blee offers an innovative and superb probe into organized racism. Her 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 ofThe Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933

"Kathleen Blee has produced a fascinating account of women in extreme racist movements. She analyses the place of women in the racist culture of violence, and in so doing she challenges many preconceptions.Inside Organized Racism is a courageous, thoughtful and important book."Michael Billig, author ofRock'n'Roll Jews

"Chock-full of insights about racist movements and the women drawn to them, this book effectively demonstrates the contradictions and tensions within and among these women. Blee does a wonderful job of showing how these extremist groups not only depart from mainstream assumptions and actions but are also connected to mainstream ideas and organizations. Given the physical danger and personal horror Blee encountered in carrying out this research, her work is admirable in its depth and its attempt to balance understanding with criticism of people she found abhorrent. A chilling account of the banality of organized racism."Rebecca Klatch, author ofA Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s

"This is an extraordinary book. It exposes and illuminates the inner world of organized racism in the U.S. today, exploring not only what racists say, but also how they are formed. Focusing on the often ignored voices of women in the movement, Blee succeeds in giving us the widest, most nuances and current view of the organized racist underground in the U.S. Her analysis of issues of gender, culture and racism are both penetrating and vital for all who care about the present and future direction of American society."Mark Weitzman, Director of the National Task Force Against Hate, Simon Wiesenthal Center