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The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after
the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the
1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting
millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's
nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one
hundred years later, the pent-up anger of white Americans left
behind by a changing economy has once again directed itself at
immigrants and cultural outsiders and roiled a presidential
election. In The Politics of Losing, Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep
trace the parallels between the 1920s Klan and today's right-wing
backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism
to emerge from the shadows. White middle-class Protestant Americans
in the 1920s found themselves stranded by an economy that was
increasingly industrialized and fueled by immigrant labor.
Mirroring the Klan's earlier tactics, Donald Trump delivered a
message that mingled economic populism with deep cultural
resentments. McVeigh and Estep present a sociological analysis of
the Klan's outbreaks that goes beyond Trump the individual to show
how his rise to power was made possible by a convergence of
circumstances. White Americans' experience of declining privilege
and perceptions of lost power can trigger a political backlash that
overtly asserts white-nationalist goals. The Politics of Losing
offers a rigorous and lucid explanation for a recurrent phenomenon
in American history, with important lessons about the origins of
our alarming political climate.
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after
the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the
1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting
millions of members even in non-Southern states, the Klan's
nationalist insurgency burst into mainstream politics. Almost one
hundred years later, the pent-up anger of white Americans left
behind by a changing economy has once again directed itself at
immigrants and cultural outsiders and roiled a presidential
election. In The Politics of Losing, Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estep
trace the parallels between the 1920s Klan and today's right-wing
backlash, identifying the conditions that allow white nationalism
to emerge from the shadows. White middle-class Protestant Americans
in the 1920s found themselves stranded by an economy that was
increasingly industrialized and fueled by immigrant labor.
Mirroring the Klan's earlier tactics, Donald Trump delivered a
message that mingled economic populism with deep cultural
resentments. McVeigh and Estep present a sociological analysis of
the Klan's outbreaks that goes beyond Trump the individual to show
how his rise to power was made possible by a convergence of
circumstances. White Americans' experience of declining privilege
and perceptions of lost power can trigger a political backlash that
overtly asserts white-nationalist goals. The Politics of Losing
offers a rigorous and lucid explanation for a recurrent phenomenon
in American history, with important lessons about the origins of
our alarming political climate.
In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a
former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named
Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the
early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement
with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the
nation's forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era
society, the 1920s-era Klan exerted its influence far beyond the
South. In The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 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 also addressed a surprisingly wide range of social
and economic issues, targeting immigrants and, particularly,
Catholics, as well as African Americans, as dangers to American
society. In sharp contrast to earlier studies of the KKK, which
focus on the local or regional level, McVeigh treats the Klan as it
saw itself-as a national organization concerned with national
issues. Drawing on extensive research into the Klan's national
publication, the Imperial Night-Hawk, he traces the ways in which
Klan leaders interpreted national issues and how they attempted-and
finally failed-to influence national politics. More broadly, in
detailing the Klan's expansion in the early 1920s and its collapse
by the end of the decade, McVeigh ultimately sheds light on the
dynamics that fuel contemporary right-wing social movements that
similarly blur the line between race, religion, and values.
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