Vigilante Fascism

The Black Legion as an American Hybrid

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2107291
AutoresPeter H Amann, Peter Amann (0000-0003-3775-5442, University of Michigan, autor de correspondencia)
Año1983
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas490-524
Fecha de publicación1983-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500010550
OpenAlexW1975206924
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas21

Because in retrospect we know that fascism never took in the United States, we are likely to overlook aspects of the American experience that nurtured what might well be described as protofascist proclivities: our hardy nativist tradition, from the Know-Nothings to the second Ku Klux Klan, cultivated attitudes that strikingly paralleled many of the characteristics of European fascism during the interwar period. American nativism, one would have been tempted to argue, should have served as a seedbed for the growth of an aggressive American fascism during the crisis of the 1930s.Yet it did no such thing

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