Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Humboldt-University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: The Ku Klux Klan and its racist doctrine have a long history. In his work 'Backfire. How the Ku Klux Klan Helped the Civil Rights Movement', David Chalmers calls the Klan as 'America's only enduring political terrorist movement'. The following paper will mainly focus on the presentation of the Klan in Thomas Dixon's Southern Reconstruction novel ...