Understanding Racist Activism- Front Cover -- Understanding Racist Activism -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Studying racist activism: methods and lessons -- Organized racism in the 1920s -- Modern organized racism -- Inside white supremacism -- Inside this volume -- Lessons -- SECTION I: Fear, stigma, and other consequences of studying racists -- Preface to Section I -- Chapter 1: Studying the enemy -- Effects on interpretation -- Effects on life -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Why I returned to studying the far-right -- Chapter 3: White-knuckle research: emotional dynamics in fieldwork with racist activists -- Background to the study -- Dynamics of fear in the interview -- Dynamics of fear within racist movements -- Conclusion -- References -- SECTION II: Methods of studying racist activism -- Preface to Section II -- Chapter 4: White on white: interviewing women in United States white supremacist groups -- Racial navigations -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The banality of violence -- SECTION III: Theoretical lens and templates -- Preface to Section III -- Chapter 6: Positioning hate -- Hate as an individual phenomenon -- Hate as a social phenomenon -- Applications to racial violence and racist organizing -- References -- Chapter 7: Does gender matter in the United States far-right? -- Earlier templates -- Challenges to earlier templates -- Current templates -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: Methods, interpretation, and ethics in the study of white supremacist perpetrators -- White supremacists as perpetrators -- The assumption of agency -- The allure of the extraordinary -- The tendency to categorical analysis -- The presumption of net benefit -- Implications -- References -- SECTION IV: Entering and leaving white supremacism -- Preface to Section IV