White supremacy
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"Within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy the experience of men dressing as women, appearing in drag, has always been regarded by the dominant heterosexist cultural gaze as a sign that one is symbolically crossing over from a realm of power into a realm of powerlessness."--bell hooks on Paris is Burning in a piece published in Black Hooks |
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White supremacy or white supremacism is the racist belief that white people are superior to people of other races and therefore should be dominant over them. White supremacy has roots in scientific racism, and it often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races as well as Jews.
The term is also typically used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical, or institutional domination by white people (as evidenced by historical and contemporary sociopolitical structures such as the Atlantic slave trade, Jim Crow laws in the United States, and apartheid in South Africa). Different forms of white supremacism put forth different conceptions of who is considered white, and different groups of white supremacists identify various racial and cultural groups as their primary enemy.
In academic usage, particularly in usage which draws on critical race theory or Intersectionality, the term "white supremacy" can also refer to a political or socioeconomic system, in which white people enjoy a structural advantage (privilege) over other ethnic groups, on both a collective and individual level.
See also
- Alt-right
- Anti-miscegenation laws
- Aryan Brotherhood
- The Birth of a Nation (film)
- Eurocentrism
- Hate group
- Heroes of the Fiery Cross (book)
- Institutional racism
- Jim Crow laws
- Master race
- Neo-Confederate
- Race and intelligence
- Scientific racism
- Superiority complex
- Frances Cress Welsing
- "The White Man's Burden" (poem)
- White power music
- White nationalism
- White nationalist organizations
- White separatism
