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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “rory mcveigh”
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  • Politics and Privilege

    How the Status Wars Sustain Inequality

    by Rory McVeigh, William Carbonaro, Chang Liu, Kenadi Silcox ...
    In the United States, the bottom 50 percent of households hold only 1 percent of the nation’s wealth. Scholars and commentators have long viewed democracy as the antidote to economic inequality, but US electoral politics bears little resemblance to a struggle between the haves and the have-nots. What makes extreme disparities of wealth and income so persistent, and why has the political process ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

    Right-Wing Movements and National Politics

    by Rory McVeigh ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Losing

    Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment

    by Rory McVeigh, Kevin Estep ...
    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 ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Losing

    Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment

    by Rory McVeigh, Kevin Estep ...
    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 ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Right-Wing Movements in North America and Europe

    Media, Identity, and Parties

    Edited by Hank Johnston, Rory McVeigh, Ziad Munson ...
    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    From Boogaloo Bois and Rassemblement National, to Nordic Resistance Movement and Forza Nuova, majoritarian ethnonational movements and extreme-right politics are growing in different national contexts and continue to challenge democratic norms around the globe.This collection brings together research by prominent senior scholars and up-and-coming junior researchers to present an up-to-date ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

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