How Racial Violence Is Provoked and Channeled

Drawing on interviews with a broad set of former racist activists, this paper explores the relationships between violence and the vicious racist ideologies of modern white supremacism in the United States. Through this empirical approach, this paper contributes to a conceptual understanding of the linkages between micro- and meso-level dynamics of race and violence. In particular, we examine how racist ideologies and violent practices shape individual experiences, motivations, and actions as well as group dynamics.