@article{d5a723ecd9364ad094b1d28cb6740f7c,
title = "Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists",
abstract = "The process of leaving deeply meaningful and embodied identities can be experienced as a struggle against addiction, with continuing cognitive, emotional, and physiological responses that are involuntary, unwanted, and triggered by environmental factors. Using data derived from a unique set of in-depth life history interviews with 89 former U.S. white supremacists, as well as theories derived from recent advances in cognitive sociology, we examine how a rejected identity can persist despite a desire to change. Disengagement from white supremacy is characterized by substantial lingering effects that subjects describe as addiction. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of identity residual for understanding how people leave and for theories of the self.",
keywords = "addiction, culture, identity, racism, symbolic interactionism",
author = "Pete Simi and Kathleen Blee and Matthew DeMichele and Steven Windisch",
note = "Funding Information: This project was supported by Award No: 2014-ZA-BX-0005, the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) project, “Recruitment and Radicalization among US Far-Right Terrorists,” as well as the Department of Homeland Science and Technology Directorate{\textquoteright}s Office of University Programs through Award Number 2012-ST-061-CS0001, Center for the Study of Terrorism and Behavior (CSTAB) 2.1 made to START to investigate the understanding and countering of terrorism within the United States. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, START, or the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017, {\textcopyright} American Sociological Association 2017.",
year = "2017",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1177/0003122417728719",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "82",
pages = "1167--1187",
journal = "American Sociological Review",
issn = "0003-1224",
publisher = "American Sociological Association",
number = "6",
}