Kathleen M. Blee (born 1953) is a professor of sociology and Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and the College of General Studies at the

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Biography

Blee completed a B.A. in sociology with highest honors in 1974 from

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and an M.S. in 1976, and a Ph.D. 1982 (both in

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) from the

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. Before taking a position at University of Pittsburgh in 1996, she taught sociology at the

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. Her areas of interest include gender, race and racism, social movements, and sociology of space and place. Special interests include how gender influences racist movements, including work on women in the

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in the 1920s.

Selected publications

*Inside Organized Racism: Women and Men in the Hate Movement (2002, University of California Press) *Feminism and Antiracism: Transnational Struggles for Justice (2001, New York University Press, Edited with France Winddance Twine) *The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (2000, Cambridge University Press, written with Dwight Billings *No Middle Ground: Women & Radical Protest (1998, New York University Press, Editor) *Women of The Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s (1991, New York University Press)

References

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