Background
Kathleen Blee was born in 1953.
2017
4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
Kathleen Blee
2017
4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
Kathleen Blee
2018
4200 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, United States
Kathleen Blee (second right)
2019
4905 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Kathleen Blee addresses an audience at Rodef Shalom Congregation.
107 S Indiana Ave, Bloomington, IN 47405, United States
Kathleen Blee studied at Indiana University. She got a Bachelor of Arts.
Madison, WI, United States
Kathleen Blee studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She got a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy.
Kathleen Blee
(In "Women of the Klan," Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate...)
In "Women of the Klan," Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate portrait of a racist movement that appealed to ordinary people throughout the country. In so doing, she dismantles the popular notion that politically involved women are always inspired by pacifism, equality, and justice.
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Klan-Racism-Gender-1920s-ebook/dp/B003EV5PLQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Women+of+the+Klan%3A+Racism+and+Gender+in+the+1920s&qid=1588690771&sr=8-1
1991
(Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line, fight...)
Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line, fighting for better working conditions. White women organizing against the racial integration of schools. Native American women struggling for Indian treaty rights. African American women in the Black Panther Party. What prompts these women to adopt political stances outside mainstream politics? How are these women changed by personal experiences of militancy and activism? Until recently, radical and militant activists have been viewed largely as male, while women have been assumed to be apolitical, more interested in domestic concerns, and personal relationships than in public issues and political controversies. Despite evidence that women have been involved in a wide range of political activities, from revolutionary parties to racial hate groups, little attention has been paid to women's radical action.
https://www.amazon.com/No-Middle-Ground-Radical-Protest/dp/0814712797/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=No+Middle+Ground%3A+Women+%26+Radical+Protest&qid=1588690668&sr=8-1
1998
(Intended for social scientists, historians, and readers i...)
Intended for social scientists, historians, and readers interested in social change and social poverty, this book examines the roots of entrenched poverty in Appalachia. It is both a social history of the creation of chronic poverty (and wealth) in Clay County, and an explication of how economic markets, cultural strategies, and the state interact to shape local society. By linking a longitudinal study of a single place to broader understandings of the historical development of the capitalist world system, this book contributes to policy discussions of the underlying causes of persistent rural poverty and reasons for the chronic failure of government programs to alleviate such poverty. In doing this study the authors have assembled probably the longest-running set of longitudinal data currently available on an American rural population as well as the most extensive body of data available for a persistently poor community in the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Road-Poverty-Billings-Blee/dp/0521655463/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Road+to+Poverty%3A+The+Making+of+Wealth+and+Hardship+in+Appalachia.&qid=1588690585&s=digital-text&sr=8-1
2000
(A collection of international scholars and activists answ...)
A collection of international scholars and activists answer the questions of how does gender and region/nation play a defining role in how feminists engage in anti-racist practices? How has the restructuring in the world economy affected anti-racist organizing? How do Third World Feminists counter the perception that feminism is a "Western" ideology and how effective are their methods? What opportunities does globalization bring for cross-cultural organizing? From essays on the race and gender issues in organizing exotic dancers to resistance art in Africa and the United States, this timely and necessary anthology will be sure to spark debate and controversy.
https://www.amazon.com/Feminism-Antiracism-International-Struggles-Justice/dp/0814798551/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Feminism+and+Anti-Racism%3A+International+Struggles+for+Justice&qid=1588690460&s=digital-text&sr=1-2-catcorr
2001
(Following up on her highly praised study of the women in ...)
Following up on her highly praised study of the women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, Blee discovers that many of today's racist women combine dangerous racist and anti-Semitic agendas with otherwise mainstream lives. The only national sample of a broad spectrum of racist activists and the only major work on women racists, this important book also sheds light on how gender relationships shape participation in the movement as a whole.
https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Organized-Racism-Women-Movement-ebook/dp/B003EV5PN4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Inside+Organized+Racism%3A+Women+in+the+Hate+Movement&qid=1588690391&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
2002
(With civic engagement commonly understood to be on the de...)
With civic engagement commonly understood to be on the decline and traditional bases of community and means of engagement increasingly fractured, how do people become involved in collective civic action? How do activist groups form? What hampers the ability of these groups to invigorate political life, and what enables it? Kathleen Blee's groundbreaking new study provides a provocative answer: the early times' matter. By following grassroots groups from their very beginnings, Blee traces how their sense of possibility shrinks over time as groups develop a shared sense of who they are that forecloses options that were once open. At the same time, she charts the turning points at which options re-open and groups become receptive to change and reinvention.
https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Making-Activist-Studies-Politics-ebook/dp/B0076WSM8C/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Democracy+in+the+Making%3A+How+Activist+Groups+Form.&qid=1588690179&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
2012
(The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how w...)
The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how women matter in the national and transnational links and exchanges of rightist politics. Suitable for classroom use, it sets a new agenda for scholarship on women on the right.
https://www.amazon.com/Women-Right-Comparisons-Interplay-Borders-ebook/dp/B0178AL1V6/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Women+of+the+Right%3A+Comparisons+and+Interplay+Across+Borders.&qid=1588690327&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
2012
(White supremacist groups are highly secretive, so their p...)
White supremacist groups are highly secretive, so their public propaganda tells us little about their operations or the people they attract. To understand the world of organized racism it is necessary to study it from the inside by talking to their members and observing their groups. Doing so reveals a disturbing picture of how fairly ordinary white people learn to embrace the vicious ideas and dangerous agendas of white supremacism. This book takes the reader inside organized racism, revealing the kind of women and men who join groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan or neo-Nazi skinheads, and what they do in those groups.
https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Racist-Activism-Research-Routledge-ebook/dp/B0744P98H1/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Understanding+Racist+Activism%3A+Theory%2C+Methods%2C+and+Research.&qid=1588690116&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
2017
Kathleen Blee was born in 1953.
Kathleen Blee graduated from Indiana University. She got a Bachelor of Arts in 1974. Also, Kathleen Blee studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 1976 she got there a Master of Science, and in 1982 she got a Doctor of Philosophy.
Kathleen Blee began her teaching career in 1981 at the University of Kentucky, where she eventually held the rank of Professor. While at Kentucky, she served as Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and as Director for the Women's Studies Program. Kathleen joined the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Sociology at the rank of Professor in 1996, and her recruitment to Pitt included an appointment as the Director of the Women's Studies Program. She served in that capacity from 1996 to 2001. Kathleen Blee was appointed Distinguished Professor of Sociology in 2007, and she served as chair of the Department of Sociology from 2008 to 2011. Kathleen is also associated with the Cultural Studies Program and the Center for Race and Social Problems.
Kathleen Blee has published journal articles, encyclopedia entries, and books.
Kathleen Blee's first monograph, "Women in the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s," was published by the University of California Press in 1991. This book examines the sense of feminist empowerment felt by women who ironically were working for the oppression of blacks, Jews, and Catholics through their participation in the Ku Klux Klan. Her co-authored book with Dwight Billings, "The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia," was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000. This book explores some of the stereotypes about that region. "Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement" was published by the University of California Press in 2002. In this book, Kathleen demonstrates that stereotypes of women in racist groups are often inaccurate.
Kathleen Blee's next monograph, "Making Democracy: How Activist Groups Form," was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. The book won the 2013 Charles Tilly Award for Best Book from the American Sociological Association and the 2012 Outstanding Book in Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research Award from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Her latest book, "Understanding Racist Activism: Theory, Methods, and Research," was published in 2017 by Routledge Press.
Kathleen Blee served as the Dietrich School's Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research from 2012 until 2017, after which she briefly took on the role of the school's Senior Associate Dean. In August 2017, Kathleen began her Deanship of the Dietrich School and the College of General Studies. Kathleen Blee teaches graduate courses and seminars in research methods, global feminism, qualitative methods, racialization, and racial social movements.
(A collection of international scholars and activists answ...)
2001(With civic engagement commonly understood to be on the de...)
2012(Following up on her highly praised study of the women in ...)
2002(Intended for social scientists, historians, and readers i...)
2000(The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how w...)
2012(In "Women of the Klan," Kathleen Blee unveils an accurate...)
1991(White supremacist groups are highly secretive, so their p...)
2017(Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line, fight...)
1998Kathleen Blee is opposed to racism. She believes that "the most effective way to counter white supremacy is by exposing it. All the collective and individual efforts that expose the true operation of white supremacy - its roots, history, ideology - are effective because white supremacism relies on deception and confusion. Writing and researching is absolutely key to combating organized racism."
Quotations:
"Perhaps the most striking aspect of getting to know people in racial extremism is that they are almost never like the stereotype we have of such people."
"I am convinced that we can make progress in preventing people from joining racist groups and convincing current racial extremists to leave the movement if we better understand this world."
Quotes from others about the person
University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Patrick Gallagher: "Kathleen Blee is a distinguished scholar, an experienced and collaborative administrator, and an innovative leader. These exceptional qualities - matched by a remarkable commitment to our students and her dedication to supporting our faculty members - truly set her apart."
Kathleen Blee has a son Eli and a daughter Sophie.