white supremacy

noun

1

: the belief that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races

The alt-right is a reactionary conservative movement … . It is characterized by an embrace of fascism, white supremacy, and misogyny …

—Constance Grady

2

: the social, economic, and political systems that collectively enable white people to maintain power over people of other races

… [William] Kelley turned his considerable intellect and imagination to the question of what it is like to be white in this country, and what it is like, for all Americans, to live under the conditions of white supremacy …

—Kathryn Schulz

Examples of white supremacy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

All three candidates lost — Lamm received just 13,000 votes — bringing an end to what Pope described as the first modern battle to bring white supremacy into mainstream America under the guise of environmentalism. —Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2024

William Horne is a historian of white supremacy and Black liberation at the University of Maryland, College Park. —William Horne / Made By History, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024

Whereas, California constructed monuments, memorials, markers, and plaques to preserve and memorialize Confederate principles, glorifying subjugation, slavery, and white supremacy. —Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024

Critical to exposing the hypocrisy and white supremacy brokered by museums for more than 100 years, separating the (white) American art from the Native American art, inferring to audiences that Native Americans are some other, lesser kind of Americans. —Chadd Scott, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1824, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

white supremacy

noun

: the belief that the white race is superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races

white supremacist noun