Saving Apartheid

White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-231-21588-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Global America

During the 1980s, as global antiapartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Africa and beyond. This groundbreaking book tells the story of how a transatlantic pro-apartheid movement attempted to defend white rule in South Africa—and forged enduring links between global conservatism and white power.

By mapping an international network of white supremacist organizations, Augusta Dell’Omo reveals a fundamental shift in far-right organizing in response to changing geopolitical realities. The pro-apartheid movement brought together a range of figures who sought to influence the conservative Western governments they saw as allies. As antiapartheid activism grew, the South African regime crumbled, and the post–Cold War order took shape, apartheid’s defenders adapted their ideology for a colorblind, human rights–centric, and neoliberal world. Their successes and failures shaped the antistatist trajectory of white supremacist organizing in the 1990s and beyond, planting the seeds for a global resurgence of the far right.

Saving Apartheid ranges from Reagan’s Oval Office to South Africa’s bantustans and from white women’s grassroots organizing to evangelical broadcasting, illuminating how an unlikely coalition reimagined white supremacy. Uncovering the surprising influence of apartheid’s defenders, this book offers a prehistory of the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dell'Omo, Augusta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Konservativismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Liberalismus, Libertarismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I: Building the Pro-Apartheid Movement
1. Telling the Story of White Power
2. The Only True Friends South Africa Has
Part II: An International Antisanctions Campaign
3. Making and Breaking Constructive Engagement
4. White Women for Apartheid
5. Breaking with the Republican Party
Part III: White Power Without Apartheid
Interlude: Apartheid Theology
6. Human Rights for White Power
7. The Colorblind Far Right at Apartheid’s End
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Archives
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Augusta Dell’Omo is a historian of global conservatism and the far right. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.