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Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Nancy MacLean
其他書名
The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan
出版Oxford University Press, 1994
主題History / United States / GeneralPolitical Science / General
ISBN66104514789786610451470
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7_qcxwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This book reveals how and why the Klan achieved a level of power and influence unmatched by any other American right-wing movement. The second Klan mobilized a nationwide following largely through campaigns waged over concerns that today would be called "family values": Prohibition violation, premarital sex, lewd movies, anxieties about women's changing roles, and worries over waning parental authority. Issues of gender and family life were essential to the movement. Yet, MacLean shows, crusades over "morals" always operated in the service of the Klan's larger agenda of virulent racial hatred and middle-class revanchism. The men who deplored sex among young people and sought to restore the power of husbands and fathers also wanted to make the U.S. a "white man's country," by taking the vote from blacks and barring immigrants. In vigilante terror, Klansmen acted out their movement's driving, brutal determination to maintain inherited hierarchies of race, class, and gender.