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Connecting Colonial Nostalgia and Global White Supremacism Rhodesianmentality

By Tawanda Ray Bvirindi Copyright 2026
190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Whiteness and the Art of Reminiscing: Remembering the By-Gone Rhodesian Homeland

2. Rhodesia’s Dead? Racism, White Supremacy and the ‘#Makezimbabwerhodesiaagain’ Movement

3. The Memorialisation of the Rhodesian Bush War and the Reconstruction of Rhodesians Will Never Die Spirit

4. The Memory of 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. The (Re) Production of Rhodesian Symbolism and Bolstering of Whiteness and White Supremacy in the Global North

Biography

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).