The Return of the Native: White Supremacy, Indigenous Rights and the Struggle for Britain

This article enquires into the articulation of Britishness, whiteness and indigeneity in post-Second World War British discourses of race, nationality, citizenship, and immigration. Noting how frequently, in contemporary European far right discourse, the “fantasy of a ‘return’ to socially homogeneous societies that existed ‘before’ cultural difference” (Pitcher 2009: 2) is underwritten by (factitious) claims of indigeneity that permit the …