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.

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.

IntroductionToward a global history of white nationalism - Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, and Jennifer SuttonIn the shadow of slavery and empire1 Black pasts, white nationalist racecraft and the political work of history - Kennetta Hammond Perry2 ‘Regular White man’: Reveries of reverse colonisation - Stuart Ward3 Wild power: The aftershocks of decolonization and black power - Bill SchwarzOpposing civil rights4 Enoch Powell’s America / America’s Enoch Powell - Clive Webb5 From Belfast to Bob Jones: Ian Paisley, Protestant fundamentalism, and the Transatlantic right - Daniel GearyNostalgia for white rule6 ‘One last retreat’: Racial nostalgia and population panic in Smith’s Rhodesia and Powell's Britain - Josiah Brownell7 Transatlantic white supremacy: American segregationists and international racism after civil rights - Zoe HymanThe far right in the Anglosphere8 White Australia alone? The international links of the Australian far right in the Cold War era - Evan Smith9 “It’s a white fight and we’ve got to win it”: Culture, violence, and the Transatlantic far right since the 1970s - Kyle BurkePostscript: Islamophobia and the struggle against white supremacy - Omar KhanBibliographyIndex

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.