white supremacy
racist belief that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds
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Summary
white supremacy is a political ideology[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of political ideology entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,120 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: discrimination[3], ideology[4], pseudoscience[5]
- Based on: scientific racism[6], race[7], pseudoscience[8]
- Subclass of: white nationalism[9], racism[10], supremacism[11], ethnic supremacism[12]
- Commons category: White supremacy[13]
- Opposite of: black supremacy[14]
- Has part(s): White supremacy in the United States[15]
- Significant event: Age of Enlightenment[16], I Have a Dream[17], Reconstruction Era[18]
- Topic's main category: Category:White supremacy[19]
- Facet of: European colonialism[20], Scramble for Africa[21], slavery in the United States[22], racism in the United States[23], neo-Nazism[24], Christian Identity[25], neo-Confederate[26], 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism[27]
- Depicted by: The Birth of a Nation[28]
- Described by source: The Passing of the Great Race[29], The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy[30], Mein Kampf[31], The Myth of the Twentieth Century[32], Red Blue Translator[33]
- Partially coincident with: white nationalism[34]
- Used by: white people[35], Ku Klux Klan[36], Aryan Nations[37], White Aryan Resistance[38], Proud Boys[39], radical right in the United States[40], Blood & Honour[41]
- Contributing factor of: Atlantic slave trade[42], Jim Crow laws[43], White Australia policy[44], apartheid[45], Naturalization Act of 1790[46], anti-miscegenation laws[47], militia movement[48], domestic terrorism[49], hate group[50], Nazism[51]
- Different from: White movement[52]
- Has goal: power[53], white privilege[54]
- Significant place: Antebellum South[55], Confederate States of America[56]
Why It Matters
white supremacy has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[57] It is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[58]