Klandestine Organizing: a critical look at storytelling and member cohesion in a secret society

• In Event: Organizing Typically Hidden from View

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to critique the organizational stories, used by organizers to bolster members and excite external approval, found in the organizational myths the Ku Klux Klan created and propagated during the 1920s. This paper takes a comprehensive critical approach to organizational materials by incorporating some of the key ideas of critical theorists and coupling that product with a conceptual framework constructed through organizational storytelling literature.

Author

• Kristin Dawn Hill, Texas A&M Univ