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.

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), Transitional Justice and Human Rights in Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi Mass Grave Exhumations (2024).