Ethnic Majorities and the Rise of the Far Right


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Jan 01 2016 49 mins   1
Much of the course has focused on separatist or diaspora minorities, or on the states in which they reside. This lecture considers ethnic majorities within states, such as the ethnic white British majority of Britain or whites in the United States. The nationalism of the state differs from that of the ethnic majority. Ethnic majority nationalism is more exclusive of ethnic minorities and the rise of large-scale non-European migration to Europe since the 1950s is a major factor in the rise of far right parties in Western Europe. These have gone from strength to strength since the late 1980s.