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Violent Hate Groups in Rural America
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The "agrarian myth" portrayed rural America as a refuge from the "evils" of the urban environment as mentioned in this paper, despite this popular image, criminal violence does occur in rural communities and in some situations it evolves out of the social, political, and economic structures of rural life.Abstract:
The "agrarian myth" portrays rural America as a refuge from the "evils" of the urban environment. Despite this popular image, criminal violence does occur in rural communities and in some situations it evolves out of the social, political, and economic structures of rural life. This is illustrated by the criminal activities of various hate groups found throughout the farm belt.read more
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"White men are this nation:" right-wing militias and the restoration of rural American masculinity.
Michael S. Kimmel,Abby L. Ferber +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the rural origins of the militia movement, its social composition, ideology, and organization, and its articulation with other white supremacist groups, arguing that their vision of masculinity, particularly a self-reliant, self-made masculinity endemic to American history, is the theme unifying both the ideology and the organization of rural militias with the militant right-wing continuum of which they are only a part.
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Crime, Rurality and Community:
Russell Hoggt,Kerry Carrington +1 more
TL;DR: A review of the available empirical evidence regarding crime and law and order in rural New South Wales (NSW) raises some doubts about the urban-centric focus of criminology and opens up a range of other interesting questions concerning the differential social construction of crime problems in some rural localities as discussed by the authors.
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Rurality, Class and Whiteness in U.S. Dominant Discourse and Counter-Narrative, Postwar to Present
TL;DR: This paper analyzed a wide array of written and visual materials from the postwar (defined as 1945-1970) and the post-1980s, including an analysis of the "topoi" employed to represent rurality in both dominant discourse (here, primarily found in the social sciences and journalistic reportage) and rural counter-narratives as found in autobiography, literature, and filmic adaptations.
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The Identity Christian Movement: Ideology of Domestic Terrorism
TL;DR: The causes of violent acts directed at the government and its officials, ethnic and other minorities, synagogues, and Black churches have con- founded law enforcement agencies as discussed by the authors, and these acts of violence include from the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995; mail bombs directed at federal judges and NAACP leaders; random acts of terrorism targeting homosexuals, Blacks, Jews, Hispanic, and Asians; the burning of Black and mixed congregation churches in the South; the July 24, 1998 shootings at the nation's capitol; and most recently, the beating death of a
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New directions in feminist understandings of rural crime
TL;DR: In the early to mid-1990s, Patricia Gagne's work on woman abuse in the Appalachian region of the United States (U.S) sparked contemporary feminist interpretations of rural crime and social control.
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Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment
John C. Lester,D. L. Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: The Ku Klux Klan: its origin, growth, and disbandment as mentioned in this paper is a well-known account of the Ku Klux Klansman movement in the United States, which dates back to the mid-nineteenth century.