2 “Regular White man”
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Stuart Ward
Abstract
Stuart Ward discusses how conservatives have harnessed history to their cause, tapping into a vein of popular anxiety rooted in readings of the colonial past still prevalent in Australia, Britain, and other former British settler colonies. Invoking the memory of colonization, they stir memories of the very conditions of post-war decolonization that had originally burst the bubble of White Australia. The spectre of a “home” defiled by peoples once kept in their colonial place was remarkably reminiscent of the Powellite moment in 1960s England, and the wider dislocations of an unravelling empire. Moreover, it was consistent with the very earliest invocations of “decolonization” that invariably harboured fears of “the colonized becoming colonizers”. This chapter draws out the Australian perspective on white nationalism in the Anglosphere.
Abstract
Stuart Ward discusses how conservatives have harnessed history to their cause, tapping into a vein of popular anxiety rooted in readings of the colonial past still prevalent in Australia, Britain, and other former British settler colonies. Invoking the memory of colonization, they stir memories of the very conditions of post-war decolonization that had originally burst the bubble of White Australia. The spectre of a “home” defiled by peoples once kept in their colonial place was remarkably reminiscent of the Powellite moment in 1960s England, and the wider dislocations of an unravelling empire. Moreover, it was consistent with the very earliest invocations of “decolonization” that invariably harboured fears of “the colonized becoming colonizers”. This chapter draws out the Australian perspective on white nationalism in the Anglosphere.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Contributors ix
- Series editors’ foreword xii
- Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
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In the shadow of slavery and empire
- 1 Black pasts, white nationalist racecraft, and the political work of history 31
- 2 “Regular White man” 53
- 3 Wild power 71
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Opposing civil rights
- 4 Enoch Powell’s America / America’s Enoch Powell 105
- 5 From Belfast to Bob Jones 131
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Nostalgia for white rule
- 6 “One last retreat” 157
- 7 Transatlantic white supremacy 187
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The far right in the Anglosphere
- 8 White Australia alone? 231
- 9 “It’s a white fight and we’ve got to win it” 262
- Postscript 301
- Index 309
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Contributors ix
- Series editors’ foreword xii
- Preface xiv
- Introduction 1
-
In the shadow of slavery and empire
- 1 Black pasts, white nationalist racecraft, and the political work of history 31
- 2 “Regular White man” 53
- 3 Wild power 71
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Opposing civil rights
- 4 Enoch Powell’s America / America’s Enoch Powell 105
- 5 From Belfast to Bob Jones 131
-
Nostalgia for white rule
- 6 “One last retreat” 157
- 7 Transatlantic white supremacy 187
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The far right in the Anglosphere
- 8 White Australia alone? 231
- 9 “It’s a white fight and we’ve got to win it” 262
- Postscript 301
- Index 309
