Could not agree more! My book, Saving Apartheid: White Internationalism at the End of the Cold War, traces exactly this transatlantic connection between apartheid and the American right from 1980 to 1994. Out with Columbia University Press late 2025/early 2026!
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jamelle
based on some reading i'm doing at the moment, there is a book to be written — if it already hasn't been — on defense of apartheid south africa as the great international cause of the american right
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https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784712/norms-in-international-relations/#bookTabs=1
[Review] 'For Crouch and TBN, SA represented an essential location to initiate the second coming of Jesus Christ, opening all of the “dark continent” for conversion.'
I always saw it in political - economic terms, boycott etc
"Jesus" is new!
https://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/2022-2-14-the-1980s-apartheid-debate-in-britain-colonial-legacies-anti-colonial-solidarities-2kh6n/