Abstract
Nancy MacLean is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, and the award-winning author of several books, including Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan; Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace; The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents; and Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present. She also served the editor of Scalawag: A White Southerner’s Journey through Segregation to Human Rights Activism.
Her scholarship has received more than a dozen major prizes and awards, and has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships Foundation.
Her most recent book is Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Democracy in Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Current Affairs, the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. The Nation magazine named it the “Most Valuable Book” of the year.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.29.12
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
Recommended Citation
Maclean, Nancy; Imlay, Aimee; and Wentz, Matthew
(2020)
"Reactionary Populism and the Historical Erosion of Democracy in America. An Interview with Nancy MacLean, Duke University,"
disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory: Vol. 29, Article 13.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13023/disclosure.29.12
Available at:
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol29/iss1/13
