Places for Races: The White Supremacist Movement Imagines U.S. Geography

Authors

Barbara Perry, University of Ontario Institute of TechnologyFollow
Randy Blazak, Portland State UniversityFollow

Abstract

Increasingly, scholars are acknowledging that racial and other forms of animus assume a spatial dimension. Not only does intercultural hostility take different forms depending on location, but so, too, does the concomitant bias-motivated violence imply “places for races.” The very intent and motive of hate crimes are grounded in the perceived need of perpetrators to defend carefully crafted boundaries. While these boundaries are largely cultural, they may also take on a real, physical form, at least from the perpetrator’s perspective. Nowhere is this more evident than in the geographical imagination of the White Supremacist movement. This paper will trace the ways in which the movement idealizes the appropriate geographical “places for races.”

Recommended Citation

Perry, Barbara and Blazak, Randy (2010) "Places for Races: The White Supremacist Movement Imagines U.S. Geography," Journal of Hate Studies: Vol. 8: Iss. 1, Article 3.
DOI: 10.33972/jhs.67
Available at: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/jhs/vol8/iss1/3

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