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Today we might think of the self-described “alt-right” white nationalists marching with torches in Virginia and shouting “blood and soil” as they protest the removal of Confederate war memorials.
For sociologists and those involved in current racial justice movements, however, white supremacy is a descriptive and useful term to capture the all-encompassing centrality and assumed superiority of people defined and perceived as white and the practices based on this assumption.
an overarching political, economic, and social system of domination.
racism is a structure, not an event.
white supremacy
While racism in other cultures exists based on different ideas of which racial group is superior to another, the United States is a global power, and through movies and mass media, corporate culture, advertising, US-owned manufacturing, military presence, historical colonial relations, missionary work, and other means, white supremacy is circulated globally.
White supremacy is especially relevant in countries that have a history of colonialism by Western nations.
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white supremacy as “the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today.”
white supremacy has shaped Western political thought for hundreds of yea...
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white supremacy is rendered invisible while other political systems—socialism, capitalism, fascis...
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First, white supremacy is never acknowledged.
Second, we cannot study any sociopolitical system without addressing how that system is mediated by race.
Race scholars use the term white supremacy to describe a sociopolitical economic system of domination based on racial categories that benefits those defined and perceived as white. This system of structural power privileges, centralizes, and elevates white people as a group.
2016–2017:
Ten richest Americans:
US Congress:
• US governors:
Top military a...
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President and vice p...
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US House Freedom...
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Current US presidentia...
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People who decide which TV sh...
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People who decide which boo...
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People who decide which news ...
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People who decide which music ...
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People who directed the one hundred top-grossing films of a...
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Teac...
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Full-time college pr...
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Owners of men’s professional foo...
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They represent power and control by a racial group that is in the position to disseminate and protect its own self-image, worldview, and interests across the entire society.
One of the most potent ways white supremacy is disseminated is through media representations, which have a profound impact on how we see the world.
Because these men are most likely at the top of the social hierarchy in terms of race, class, and gender, they are the least likely to have a wide variety of authentic egalitarian cross-racial relationships.
they are in the position to represent the racial “other.”
Further, these biased representations have been disseminated worldwide; while white supremacy originated in the West, it circulates globally.
White resistance to the term white supremacy prevents us from examining how these messages shape us. Explicit white supremacists understand this.
Christian Pic...
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“alt-right”
Derek Black,
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“the Southern strategy”—how to appeal to the racism of white Southern voters without pronouncing it openly:
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Our umbrage at the term white supremacy only serves to protect the processes it describes and obscure the mechanisms of racial inequality.
However, I hope to have made clear that white supremacy is something much more pervasive and subtle than the actions of explicit white nationalists.
White supremacy describes the culture we live in, a culture that positions white people and all that is associated with them (whiteness) as ideal.
White supremacy is more than the idea that whites are superior to people of color; it is the deeper premise that supports this idea—the definition of whites as the norm or standard for human...
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It makes the system visible and shifts the locus of change onto white people, where it belongs.
the full weight of responsibility rests with those who control the institutions.
THE WHITE RACIAL FRAME
“white racial frame”
