Studying racist activism : methods and lessons -- Section I. Fear, stigma, and other consequences of studying racists. Studying the enemy -- Why I returned to studying the far-right -- White-knuckle research : emotional dynamics in fieldwork with racist activists -- Section II. Methods of studying racist activism. White on white : interviewing women in United States white supremacist groups -- The banality of violence -- Section III. Theoretical lens and templates. Positioning hate -- Does gender matter in the United States far-right? -- Methods, interpretation, and ethics in the study of white supremacist perpetrators -- Section IV. Entering and leaving white supremacism. Women in the 1920s Ku Klux Klan movement -- Becoming a racist : women in contemporary Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups -- Personal effects from far-right activism -- Section V. Directions for future research. Women and organized racial terrorism in the United States -- Women in extreme right parties and movements : a comparison of the Netherlands and the United States (co-authored with Annette Linden) -- The duality of spectacle and secrecy : a case study of fraternalism in the 1920s U.S. Ku Klux Klan (co-authored with Amy McDowell)