Thisbook collects significant published works from renowned scholar Kathleen Blee's work on racist activism.

Studying racist activism: methods and lessons

Section I Fear, stigma, and other consequences of studying racists

Preface to Section I

1 Studying the enemy

2 Why I returned to studying the far-right

3 White-knuckle research: emotional dynamics in fieldwork with racist activists

Section II Methods of studying racist activism

Preface to Section II

4 White on white: interviewing women in United States white supremacist groups

5 The banality of violence

Section III Theoretical lens and templates

Preface to Section III

6 Positioning hate

7 Does gender matter in the United States far-right?

8 Methods, interpretation, and ethics in the study of white supremacist perpetrators

Section IV Entering and leaving white supremacism

Preface to Section IV

9 Women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan movement

10 Becoming a racist: women in contemporary Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups

11 Personal effects from far-right activism

Section V Directions for future research

Preface to Section V

12 Women and organized racial terrorism in the United States

13 Women in extreme right parties and movements: a comparison of the Netherlands and the United States (co-authored with Annette Linden)

14 The duality of spectacle and secrecy: a case study of fraternalism in the 1920s US Ku Klux Klan (co-authored with Amy McDowell)

Kathleen M. Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.