ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on research previously published in 2004 and 2006, which examines the British National Party's (BNP) website as a form of activist, alternative media. Drawing on the post-colonial notion of the Other, the BNP sought to present itself, its activities and its members as responses to racism and oppression that, it argued, are practised by the Other. If a triumphalist, imperialist history is the cultural bedrock of the BNP's policies, its social imperative for the future rests on a racist construction of White children and young people. The imaginary of White cultural history is presented as immutable; a collective history that produces identity to the degree that its fixity assures and asserts its normalization. The result of the UK's EU referendum seems to have provided opportunities for many media scholars to connect their personal political positions with their professional roles and to present themselves as media activists.
