Ku-klux-klan a jeho čtvrtá reinkarnace
Ku-Klux-Klan and its fourth reincarnation

Summary/Abstract: Surmiak-Domańska, Katarzyna: Ku-klux-klan: Tady bydlí láska. Translated from the Polish original by Jarmila Horáková. Žilina: Absynt, 2017, 294 pp., ISBN 978-80-89876-49-5. In the reviewer’s opinion, the educative book "Ku-Klux-Klan: This is where love lives" by the Polish reporter (initially published under the title "Ku Klux Klan: Tu mieszka miłość". Czarne, Wołowiec 2015), is a catching story about the immortality of a legend centered around the idea of chosenness and certain superiority of the white Christian American nation. The authoress provides a fitting and plastic description of Ku-Klux-Klan’s history since its birth after the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery, detailing the movement’s changes and constants, rises and falls,and permitting an interesting insight into today’s American society and politics through the movement’s optics. The reviewer appreciates that the authoress gives the floor not only to critics, but also to current members and leaders of KKK. Even a rather weaker setting of the book in the context of wider research of extremist movements cannot, in the reviewer’s opinion, diminish its value, particularly fora broader community of readers.

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