@article{ref1,
title="Addicted to hate: identity residual among former white supremacists",
journal="American sociological review",
year="2017",
author="Simi, Pete and Blee, Kathleen and Demichele, Matthew and Windisch, Steven",
volume="82",
number="6",
pages="1167-1187",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-1224",
doi="10.1177/0003122417728719",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003122417728719"
}