How Racial Violence is Provoked and Channeled

• NCJ Number: 304702
• Journal: Socio: La Nouvelle Revue Des Sciences Sociales Volume: 9 Issue: 7 Dated: 2017 Pages: 257-276
• Author(s): Kathleen M. Blee; Matthew Demichele; Pete Simi; Mehr Latif
• Date Published: 2017
• Length: 20 pages
• Grant Number(s): 2014-ZA-BX-0005
• Agencies: NIJ-Sponsored
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Award: Research and Evaluation on Domestic Radicalization to Violent Extremism: Research to Support Exit USA

Annotation

This paper seeks to explain the extraordinary violence of modern-day organized white supremacism in the United States.

Abstract

We begin on a conceptual level by distinguishing the racial ideologies and violence associated with modern racist movements from the racism and racial violence expressed in daily life in highly racialized and racially unequal societies. We then move to an empirical level by using our interviews with a broad set of former racist activists to explore how violence is caused by—and also can cause—the vicious racist ideologies of modern white supremacism. (Publisher Abstract)