white supremacy

alternative white supremacism

1. uncountableThe ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.

   Among Southern whites, the defence of slavery slid into a defence of white supremacy, since that was a useful way to unite the white population behind a coherent ideology; most Southerners did not actually own slaves, and had no necessary interest in defending that institution alone.

   2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 909

2. uncountableA situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of white supremacy

   Whiteness is the cultural, social, economic, behavioral, material, and emotional embodiment of White supremacy, and it is strategically invisible by asserting its normalcy (Frankenberg, 1997).

   2024 June 25, Miguel Montalva Barba, White Supremacy and Racism in Progressive America: Race, Place, and Space, Bristol: Bristol University Press, →ISBN, page 5