Connecting Colonial Nostalgia and Global White Supremacism

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.
Through netnographic and ethnographic studies, this book examines and unpacks the 'Rhodesians will never die' mantra as the new Internet code word for global white supremacy. Bvirindi shows how Rhodesian colonial racialised discourses of othering inform global far-right politics.
This book will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of sociology, political studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, critical race studies, critical whiteness studies, African studies and race and ethnic studies.

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).