Opinion: It’s time for Australia and New Zealand to confront their white nationalist histories
Police officers gather outside Linwood mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, after Friday's attacks. By David C. Atkinson March 15 at 7:08 PM David C. Atkinson is an associate professor of history at Purdue University.
Ever since Australia and New Zealand became outposts of British imperial rule in the Pacific, white Australians and New Zealanders have struggled to reconcile a colonial history defined by white supremacy with a modern commitment to multiethnic democracy. Though indigenous Australians and New Zealanders initially bore the brunt of this ideology, it also manifested itself in exclusionary immigration policies designed to keep nonwhite immigrants from their shores.
Although these discriminatory immigration policies ended in the 1970s, the racial anxiety that animated them never went away. It persists in both societies.
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