Global white nationalism

From apartheid to Trump

Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781526147059
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politica e relazioni internazionali
• Subtopic: Politica comparata

This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present. It situates contemporary white nationalism in the 'Anglosphere' within the context of major global events since 1945. White nationalism, it argues, became more global in reaction to the forces of decolonisation, civil rights, mass migration and the rise of international institutions. In this period, assumptions of white supremacy that had been widely held by whites throughout the world were challenged and reformulated, as western elites professed a commitment to colour-blind ideals. The decline in legitimacy of overtly racist political expression produced international alliances among white supremacists and new claims of populist legitimation.

Index

abolition of slavery 31–44

Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, bicentennial of (2007) 37

abolitionism, selective remembrance of 36–44

see also Reconstruction period in US

Aborigines 54–64, 200

Aboriginal rights 63, 231

Bundjalung people 57

Orara River massacre 61

“Stolen Generation” 64

see also Indigenous peoples

Abramoff, Jack 195

African American press 119–22, 196–7

African Americans 3, 5, 6, 15, 31–46, 106, 113, 117–21, 132, 191, 195–6

emancipation of 31–3, 73–6

see also abolition of slavery; black liberation; Black Power; civil rights and the civil rights movement

voting rights and disenfranchisement 5, 7, 117, 195

African nationalism 11–12, 74, 146, 158–60

see also anti-colonialism; decolonization; black liberation

Afrikaner nationalism 11, 147, 160, 203–11

Agnew, Spiro 112

Algerian National Liberation Front 79

“alt-right” ideology and activism 67, 190, 218

American Afrikaner Union (AAU) 206, 209–10, 217

American Civil War 31–2, 81, 83, 209, 266

memory of 9, 83

see also Confederacy

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