Connecting Colonial Nostalgia and Global White Supremacism - Rhodesianmentality

This book links colonial nostalgia to the reactivation of white supremacism in the Global North. Bvirindi develops the concept 'Rhodesianmentality' to explore the ways in which colonial racialised discourses of othering shape contemporary racialised discourses on whiteness and white identity.

Sommario

1. Whiteness and the Art of Reminiscing: Remembering the By-Gone Rhodesian Homeland; 2. '#MakeZimbabweRhodesiaAgain' movement, racism, and white supremacy; 3. Memorialisation of the Rhodesian Bush War and the Reconstruction of Rhodesians Will Never Die Spirit; 4. Remembering Ian Smith and the Recollection of a Rhodesia that Never Was; 5. We Were Never Privileged, We Simply Worked Hard: Whiteness, Denialism and Escapism Post-Rhodesia; 6. Re-producing Rhodesian Symbolism and Bolstering of Whiteness and White Supremacy in the Global North

Info autore

Tawanda Ray Bvirindi is a lecturer in community studies at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe. His academic work is deeply rooted in critical social theory, with a particular focus on whiteness, race, gender, ethnicity and memory studies within African postcolonial contexts. Recent publications include Remembering Lumumba's dismembered body politic through Amin (2023) and Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi Mass Grave Exhumations (2024).

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tawanda Ray Bvirindi, Tawanda Ray (Midlands State University Bvirindi
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.11.2025
• EAN: 9781041022701
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4102270-1
• Pagine: 170
• Serie: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Developing Countries, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity