Research Portfolio

Wednesday, October 31: Find at least one image that you would use in a presentation about your topic and cite it correctly. Also find an additional resource you’d use in your research project. 

"KKK Crawlers November 1922: Members Of The American White Supremecist Movement, The Ku Klux Clan Crawling Out Of A Tunnel After A Meeting. (Photo By Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) -- Image Date: 01/11/1922 -- Image Date: 01/11/1922." (1922): Image Collection. Web. 31 Oct. 2012.

I found this picture to be interesting because the members were hiding in a tunnel for their meeting. So much of what I read was the KKK hiding, secret meetings, when they do appear publicly they hide their faces. Are they fearful of prosecution if caught? Fearful of what will be done to them if other races see them? Or are they just trying to intimidate others?... 

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Additional resource that I found…

So far I have researched through GALILEO & Databases for information. I thought for an additional source it would be interesting to get some information from the point of view of KKK members. (Scary…) But there is actually a website kkk.com. I was curious about the content of the website and in looking through it came across an application to join them, merchandise people can buy and even a section on various articles they had written.

One article was The Coming White Genocide

": The Coming White Genocide." : The Coming White Genocide. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Nov. 2012. <http://kkk.bz/main/?page_id=570>.

(This is in no way a scholarly article but I thought it would be interesting to show the opinion/point of view of a KKK member.)

A couple quotes from the "article"

“The genocide against our race will take many decades, but the time is steadily becoming short. And this genocide is not based on geography, but race. It is a worldwide phenomena”

“Whites will be faced with crime rates never seen before in history, in some places mass killings, arrests and displacement, will most likely happen. We will be turned into a weak and compliant slave minority. Our people are coming under judgment from God because they refuse to follow his laws on a national scale”

Though this is not a scholarly article it goes along with my research in the possible psychological explanations behind Xenophobia. Is the KKK simply a hate group? Are they expressing their fears through hate, intimidation, and violence? Or are they simply violent crazed whites?

       ~I had hoped to find an interview but this was as close as I could get to hearing from a Klan member~