Saving Apartheid

In this timely book on the rise of the global right, Augusta Dell’Omo uncovers the largely ignored far-right networks that mobilized to save South Africa’s racist regime in the 1970s and ’80s. Saving Apartheid is original, insightful, and vitally important history. – Nicole Hemmer, author of Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990sThis is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the motivations and constructions of global far-right networks. Dell’Omo deftly moves the literature beyond those who successfully organized against apartheid to reveal the ordinary people—from conservative Christians to Black Bantustan leaders—who united across the Atlantic to defend it. – Jill E. Kelly, author of To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800–1996This is a compelling and comprehensive study. Dell’Omo deftly draws together primary sources from a range of archives to uncover the networks connecting the pro-apartheid movement to the global far-right and white supremacist movements of the 1990s, clearly and cogently illuminating the tactics and rhetoric of these groups. – Lauren Frances Turek, author of To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign RelationsThis riveting book moves beyond a predominantly state-centric understanding of Western support for apartheid to reveal how everyday actors in the United States and South Africa organized in defense of apartheid. While these campaigns eventually failed, they prefigured present-day transnational far-right networking. A crucial book for analyzing twenty-first-century global white supremacism. – Christi van der Westhuizen, author of White Power and the Rise and Fall of the National Party

Augusta Dell’Omo is a historian of global conservatism and the far right. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.