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Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
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Critical Race TheoryKu Klux KlanEducationBlack ExperienceSocial SciencesRaceBlack Feminist ThoughtContemporary RacismGender IdentityWhite SupremacyFeminist ResearchGender StudiesAfrican American StudiesFeminist IdentityMisleading PictureWomen StudiesBlack Feminist TheoryFeminist ScholarshipIntersectionalityFeminist PerspectiveBlack PowerUnited States FeminismFeminist TheoryFeminist MethodologiesAnti-racismGender StereotypeBlack ProtestBlack Women’s StudiesRacial ViolenceSociologyBlack FeminismInvolved Women
The Ku Klux Klan stereotype misrepresents women's roles, and recent scholarship reexamines women’s participation in the 1920s Klan’s white and Christian supremacist agenda. Blee shows that politically active Klan women were not driven by pacifism, equality, or justice. The other section notes the Klan as ignorant, brutal, and male.
Ignorant. Brutal. Male. One of these stereotypes of the Ku Klux Klan offers a misleading picture. In Women of the Klan, sociologist Kathleen M. Blee dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always inspired by pacifism, equality, and justice. In her new preface, Blee reflects on how recent scholarship on gender and right-wing extremism suggests new ways to understand women's place in the 1920s Klan's crusade for white and Christian supremacy.