the rise of the Second Klan

Nancy MacLean: “Behind the Mask of the Chivalry” Introduction through Chapter Four, pp. xi-97.

focus on MacLean’s argument regarding the “vice of modernity” and the formation of the second
Klan. What, on MacLean’s reading, accounts for the rise of the Second Klan? What role did
shifting lines of class, gender and race play in this drama? Finally, based on your reading of
MacLean, what do you think of the complex forces that gave rise to the invisible army?