Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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: Transnational Struggles for Justice (2001).

Reviews

"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