The dangers of white totalitarianism
Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?
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Elizabeth Schmidt is professor emeritus of history at Loyola University Maryland and vice president of the African Studies Association. She has written six books about Africa, covering U.S. involvement in apartheid South Africa, women under colonialism in Zimbabwe, the nationalist movement in Guinea, and foreign intervention in Africa from the Cold War to the war on terror.
Why is the US ultra-right turning to Rhodesia as their model for a white supremacist state?
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