HOW THE STUDY OF WHITE SUPREMACISM IS HELPED AND HINDERED BY SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH*
Scholars of white supremacism adopted the framework of social movement research later and less completely than did scholars of progressive movements. Although the shift to considering racist groups as a social movement had many analytic benefits, it also nudged analysis away from some of the most central aspects of white supremacism. This article suggests how social movement research and scholarship on organized racism can benefit from a more reflective engagement with each other.
Contributor Notes
† I am indebted to David Cunningham for his perceptive comments on an earlier version presented at the 2013 Eastern Sociological Society meetings and to Elizabeth Yates and Mehr Latif for assistance on this manuscript. I thank Rory McVeigh for organizing the Notre Dame conference on social movements for which I presented some of the ideas in this paper, and Pete Simi for helpful comments on this project and many stimulating conversations about studying white supremacism.