Editors’ introduction: white supremacy in the age of (counter-)terror

Abstract

The right-wing attack on the US capital on 6 January 2021 dramatically illuminated the cultural consequences of Trumpism as a euphemism for White Supremacist violence and political thought in the United States. The egregious abuse of executive authority and federal collusion by the Trump administration during both the attempted coup and Black Lives Matter protests during the Summer of Racial Reckoning, for example, saliently marked the convergence of state-sponsored violence, White supremacy, and post-9/11 war on terror discourses, as they were mobilised to frame a new (race) war “at home,” deepening the erasure of constitutional protections in the name of so-called national security.