• 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


• Bibliography

Kathleen M. Blee is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s and Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement

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.