ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the intersections of race, racism, nation and nationalism. The chapter is structured by the main arguments of several scholars: George L. Mosse’s arguments about historical and contextual connections between race, nationalism and sexuality, Benedict Anderson’s argument about the connections between class and racism, rather than between racism and nationalism, and Étienne Balibar’s complex arguments about racism as nationalism’s ‘supplement’, as standing behind nationalism’s ‘fictive ethnicity’, and as always also involving sexism. Illustrating these arguments, the chapter discusses the examples of settler Australian nationalism, and late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chinese nationalism. The final section of the chapter critically discusses the links between racism and the right-wing populist nationalism that has become an increasingly troubling global phenomenon.
