[COMM-ORG] new book: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics]

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From:     Heather Skinner <skinn077 at umn.edu>


Rediscovering the Ku Klux Klan as a national movement in the 1920s.

THE RISE OF THE KU KLUX KLAN: Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Rory McVeigh
University of Minnesota Press | 258 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-5620-2 | paperback | $22.50
ISBN 978-0-8166-5619-6 | hardcover | $67.50
Social Movements, Protest, and Contention Series, volume 32

Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of 
1920s-era KKK, showing that although the organization continued to 
promote white supremacy, it targeted immigrants and, particularly, 
Catholics, as well as African Americans, as dangers to American society. 
In sharp contrast to earlier studies of the KKK, McVeigh treats the Klan 
as it saw itself-as a national organization concerned with national issues.

"McVeigh's careful analysis of Klan mobilization breaks new ground in 
explaining why the 1920s Klan was massive and powerful in some areas of 
the U.S. and barely visible in others. Essential reading for 
understanding political movements of fear and bigotry."-Kathleen M. Blee

"As fast as work on social movements has proliferated in recent years, 
movements on the right have continued to receive short shrift. But that 
is just one reason to celebrate McVeigh's exhaustive study of the Klan. 
McVeigh broadens our understanding of the Klan by highlighting a host of 
other issues besides race-immigration, economics, religion-that helped 
fuel their meteoric rise to power in the mid-1920s."-Doug McAdam

"Rory McVeigh's study of Ku Klux Klan growth in the 1920s rejects 
'deviance' and other established sociological theories in providing a 
new turn to the understanding of right-wing movements. His analysis is 
concerned with middle class people under the pressure of economic, 
political, and status-loss power devaluation in a changing 
society."-David Chalmers

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's 
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/mcveigh_rise.html

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