House Bound

In August of 1925, 30,000 Ku Klux Klan members, including women and children, marched on Washington openly carrying banners, and handing out pamphlets, which proclaimed Jews and other minority groups as inferior. ¹ More recently, in October of 1999, fifteen to twenty Klansmen rallied in front of a New York City courthouse only to be silenced by over one hundred counter demonstrators. ² Since the 1920s, white separatist groups in the United States have shifted from a space of public endorsement to one of being “out of place” in the political landscape. In recent years the public arena has become a space where white supremacy is deemed “politically incorrect.” However, despite what seems to be a positive development in the public arena, many white separatist groups are responding by retreating to private spaces, such as the home, as a form of resistance. For the white separatist, the home is a site of rejuvenation, for it provides a space for these groups to openly express and reproduce their racial views without fear of public reprisal. To this end, this chapter will examine not only how white separatists have retreated to the home to escape public opinion but how, in this context, white separatist women are seen to be reproducers of the white nation.