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The chapter compares how the Ku Klux Klan and real estate agents use information asymmetries to their advantage. It discusses how the KKK used fear and secrecy to grow rapidly in the early 20th century, and how lynchings of black people actually declined over time not due to anti-lynching efforts but because the black population became more submissive. It also describes how a civil rights activist infiltrated the KKK in the 1940s-50s and found it full of poor, uneducated white men seeking social outlets.
- Author
- Harinesh Pandya
- Language
- EN