4 Enoch Powell’s America / America’s Enoch Powell
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Clive Webb
Abstract
Clive Webb places Enoch Powell in a transatlantic perspective by assessing how he was influenced by, and in turn had an impact on, American politics. He demonstrates how Powell’s notorious “Rivers of Blood” speech of April 1968 owed to fears that the racial disorders affecting the inner cities of the United States could soon sweep across the Atlantic, an anxiety fuelled by the growth of Black Power in Britain. Powell’s reactionary stance on race and immigration consequently attracted the attention of American racists who at a time of increasing political retreat in the fight against black civil rights drew renewed inspiration from his mobilization of grassroots support and impact on electoral politics.
Abstract
Clive Webb places Enoch Powell in a transatlantic perspective by assessing how he was influenced by, and in turn had an impact on, American politics. He demonstrates how Powell’s notorious “Rivers of Blood” speech of April 1968 owed to fears that the racial disorders affecting the inner cities of the United States could soon sweep across the Atlantic, an anxiety fuelled by the growth of Black Power in Britain. Powell’s reactionary stance on race and immigration consequently attracted the attention of American racists who at a time of increasing political retreat in the fight against black civil rights drew renewed inspiration from his mobilization of grassroots support and impact on electoral politics.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
-
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
