This article seeks to intervene in the debate over the legacy of the British Empire, using the British Union of Fascists (BUF) as a case-study. It will argue that, during the interwar period, the BUF drew heavily on earlier constructions of racialized imperial masculinity in building their ‘new fascist man’. The BUF stand out in the period following the First World War, where hegemonic constructions of British masculinity were altogether more domesticated. At the same time, colonial policymakers were increasingly relying on concessions, rather than force, to outmanoeuvre nationalists out in the Empire. For the BUF, this all smacked of effeminacy and they responded with a ‘new man’ based on the masculine values of the idealized imperial frontier. By transplanting these values from colony to metropole, they hoped to achieve their fascist rebirth of Britain and its Empire. This article charts the BUF’s construction of this imperial ‘new fascist man’ out the legacy of earlier imperialists, the canon of stories of imperial heroism, and the gendered hierarchies of colonial racism.

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超越苍白：英国法西斯联盟的白人，男子气概和帝国，1932年至1940年

本文试图以大不列颠法西斯联盟（BUF）为案例研究，介入有关大英帝国遗产的辩论。它会争辩说，在两次世界大战期间，BUF在建立“新法西斯主义者”时大量借鉴了种族化的帝国男子气概的早期结构。在第一次世界大战之后的那个时期，BUF脱颖而出，在此期间，英国男子气概的霸权主义建筑被完全驯化了。同时，殖民地政策制定者越来越依赖让步，而不是武力来超越帝国中的民族主义者。对于BUF来说，这一切都带有女人味，他们根据理想化帝国边界的男性价值观以一个“新人”来回应。通过将这些价值从殖民地移植到大都市，他们希望实现英国及其帝国的法西斯重生。本文用图解说明了BUF对这个帝国的“新法西斯主义者”的建构，它勾勒出了早期帝国主义者的遗产，帝国英雄主义故事的典范以及殖民主义种族主义的性别等级制度。