The Second Coming of the KKK
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon's disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s.
Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this "second Klan" spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant "hordes" landing on American shores.
"Part cautionary tale, part expose" ( Washington Post ), The Second Coming of the KKK "illuminates the surprising scope of the movement" ( The New Yorker ); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass "Klonvocations" prior to its collapse in 1926--but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A "must-read" ( Salon ) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers "chilling comparisons to the present day" ( New York Review of Books ).
8 pages of illustrations
Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this "second Klan" spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant "hordes" landing on American shores.
"Part cautionary tale, part expose" ( Washington Post ), The Second Coming of the KKK "illuminates the surprising scope of the movement" ( The New Yorker ); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass "Klonvocations" prior to its collapse in 1926--but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A "must-read" ( Salon ) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers "chilling comparisons to the present day" ( New York Review of Books ).
8 pages of illustrations
Contents:
Introduction: "100% Americanism" -- Rebirth -- Ancestors -- Structures of feeling -- Recruitment, ritual, and profit -- Spectacles and Evangelicals -- Vigilantism and manliness -- KKK feminism -- Oregon and the attack on parochial schools -- Political and economic warfare -- Constituents -- Legacy: down but not out.
Subjects:
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Hate groups -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- History -- 20th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Hate groups -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781631493690 (hardcover)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-250) and index.