Race, history and the internet: the use of the internet in white supremacist propaganda in the late 1990s, with particular reference to South Africa
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2009-07-17T11:39:02Z
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Stephney, Inez Mary
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This dissertation aims to investigate the use of History by white supremacist groups
in South Africa particularly, to rework their identity on the Internet. The dissertation
argues that white supremacist groups use older traditions of history, particularly,
in the South African case, the ‘sacred saga’, as explained by Dunbar Moodie to
create a sense of historical continuity with the past and to forge an unbroken link to
the present. The South African white supremacists have been influenced by the History
written by Van Jaarsveld for example, as will be shown in the chapters analysing
the three chosen South African white supremacist groups. The white supremacists
in the international arena also use history, mixed with 1930s Nazi propaganda to
promote their ideas.