white supremacy
English
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: white su‧prem‧a‧cy
Noun
white supremacy (uncountable)
- The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 909:
- 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 2010, p. 909:
- A situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.
Hypernyms
- racism
Derived terms
- white supremacist
Translations
ideology
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See also
- black supremacy
Further reading
- white supremacy at OneLook Dictionary Search
- white supremacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia