Ku Klux kulture : America and the Klan in the 1920s / Felix Harcourt.

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

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Earlier studies of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s have largely focused on how and why the organization attracted and lost members. But to understand the Klan primarily as an organization limits our comprehension of the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire's wider significance. This work argues that when we move beyond the fetishization of affiliation, we recognize the Klan's broader power as a cultural movement. That movement unified nationally not around loyalty to a fractured and federalized hierarchy, but around an identity of white Protestant ethnonationalism consumed and reproduced in popular culture.

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June 22, 2018

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