John Broich, associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University, published White Supremacy: A Short History earlier this month with Cambridge University Press.
Written for a general audience, the book traces the origins and evolution of white supremacists thought across the English-speaking world—from the ancient world and British colonialism to the slave trade, Civil War, Nazism and the present.
Broich argues that white supremacy is not a fringe eruption or relic of the past, but a recurring political ideology rooted in ethnonationalism, the belief that a nation belongs to a single “folk,” with others present only by sufferance.
By connecting race science, empire, fascism and modern immigration rhetoric, White Supremacy: A Short History provides historical context for contemporary debates and shows how these ideas repeatedly resurface in mainstream politics.
