• Acknowledgments


• Chapter 1: Making Democracy


• Chapter 2: Theorizing the Emergence of Activism


• Chapter 3: Who Belongs?


• Chapter 4: What's the Problem?


• Chapter 5: How Should We Treat Each Other?


• Chapter 6: Lessons


• Appendices


• End Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Kathleen M. Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. A renowned scholar of activism in the U.S., from the left to the far-right, her work on racist movements is published in the award-winning books, Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement and Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s.

In Democracy in the Making, Kathleen M. Blee provides an in-depth look at modern grassroots activism, and reveals its simultaneous power and fragility. In the process, she examines the struggle between democratic vision and strategic reality that shapes each organization's trajectory and determines its ultimate success or failure.