While much has been written about hate groups and extreme right political movements, this book will be the first that addresses the crucial role that place and context play in generating and shaping them. Ranging across geographical scales the essays start with the home, and then move from the local to the regional, to the national to-finally-the global. In this collection, much of the focus is on the U.S., as the contributors consider a variety of hate activity and hate groups across the country, including; rural white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements; anti-black sentiment directed towards cities; anti-gay activity in cities and rural areas and the resurgent Southern nationalist movement. Closing with pieces from those who combat hate activity, the intention of Spaces of Hate is to recognize specific geographic settings likely to foster hate activity.

List of figures List of tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Spaces of Hate: Geographies of hate and intolerance in the United States of America, Colin Flint 1. One Social Milieu, Paradoxical Responses: A Geographical Re-Examination of the Ku Klux Klan and the Daughters of the American Revolution in the Early Twentieth Century, Carol Medlicott 2. The Geography of Racial Activism: Defining Whiteness at Multiple Scales, Kathleen M. Blee 3. House Bound: Women's Agency in White Separatist Movements, Jennifer Fluri and Lorraine Dowler 4. Contesting Place; Anti-gay and Lesbian Hate Crime in Columbus, Ohio, Rini Sumartojo 5. Blame it on the Casa Nova? Good Scenery and Sodomy in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania, Todd Heibel 6. If First You Don't Secede, Try, Try Again: Secession, Hate and the League of the South, Gerald R. Webster 7. United States Hegemony and the Construction of Racial Hatreds: The Agency of Hate Groups and the Changing World Political Map, Colin Flint 8. Mainstreaming the Milita, Carolyn Gallaher 9. When Extreme Political Ideas Move into the Mainstream, Andrew Kirby 10. Producing and Enforcing the Geography of Hate: Race, Housing Segregation, and Housing-Related hate Crimes in the United States, Jeff Crump Afterword: Finding and Fighting Hate Where it Lives: Reflections of a Pennsylvania Practitioner, Daniel M. Welliver Index