Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders: Blood and Shadow
Secret and private organizations, in the form of Greek-letter organizations, mutual aid societies, and civic orders, together possess a storied and often-romanticized place in popular culture. While much has been made of these groups glamorous origins and influence such as the Freemasons genesis in King Solomons temple or the belief in the Illuminatis control of modern geopolitics few have explicitly examined the role of race and ethnicity in organizing and perpetuating these cloistered orders. This volume directly addresses the inattention paid to the salience of race in secret societies. Through an examination of the historically black and white fraternities and sororities, the Ku Klux Klan in the US, the kp and Abaku secret societies of Africa and the West Indies, gypsies in the United Kingdom, black and white temperance lodges, and the African American Order of the Elks, this book traces the use of racial and ethnic identity in these organizations.
This important collection examines how such orders are both cause and consequence of colonization, segregation, and subjugation, as well as their varied roles as both catalysts and impediments to developing personal excellence, creating fictive kinship ties, and fostering racial uplift, nationalism, and cohesion.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Matthew W. Hughey, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Series editors: Martin Bulmer, University of Surrey, UK, and John Solomos, City University London, UK
The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal sub-field of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.
It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries, fields of scholarship and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It has moved from being a quarterly to being published monthly and it is now available in both printed and electronic form.
The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Titles in the series include:
The Transnational Political Participation of Immigrants
Edited by Jean-Michel Lafleur and Marco Martiniello
Anthropology of Migration and Multiculturalism
Edited by Steven Vertovec
Migrant Politics and Mobilisation: Exclusion, Engagements, Incorporation
Edited by Davide Per and John Solomos
New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics
Edited by Paul Amar
Young People, Ethnicity and Social Capital
Edited by Tracey Reynolds
Cosmopolitan Sociability
Edited by Tsypylma Darieva, Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic
Retheorizing Race and Whiteness in the 21st Century
Edited by Charles A. Gallagher and France Winddance Twine
Theorising Integration and Assimilation
Edited by Jens Schneider and Maurice Crul
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Asia: Inclusion or Exclusion?
Edited by Michelle Ann Miller
Diasporas, Cultures and Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Gender, Race and Religion: Intersections and Challenges
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Latino Identity in Contemporary America
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Migration: Policies, Practices, Activism
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Nationalism and National Identities
Edited by Martin Bulmer and John Solomos
Methods and Contexts in the Study of Muslim Minorities: Visible and Invisible Muslims
Edited by Nadia Jeldtoft and Jrgen S. Nielsen
Irregular Migrants: Policy, Politics, Motives and Everyday Lives
Edited by Alice Bloch and Milena Chimienti
Fighting Discrimination in Europe: The Case for a Race-Conscious Approach
Edited by Mathias Mschel, Costanza Hermanin and Michele Grigolo
Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
Edited by Michele Lamont and Nissim Mizrachi
Health Care and Immigration: Understanding the Connections
Edited by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly and Alejandro Portes
Gender, Migration and the Media
Edited by Myria Georgiou
Accounting for Ethnic and Racial Diversity: The Challenge of Enumeration
Edited by Patrick Simon and Victor Pich
Methodologies on the Move: The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research
Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist and Devrimsel D. Nergiz
Racialization and Religion: Race, Culture and Difference in the Study of Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Edited by Nasar Meer
Race and Ethnicity in Secret and Exclusive Social Orders: Blood and Shadow
Edited by Matthew W. Hughey
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