Racial Ideology And The Term White Supremacy

Whites have always considered themselves superior to blacks, no matter if they were slave owners or not. Blacks were considered lower than humans, making them a main target of oppression of whites. So even when a small group of blacks were given their freedom, they weren’t truly liberated from the chains of slavery and oppression. Blacks were freed in the early 1800s, giving a limited amount of blacks the freedom they deserved. These blacks were usually rural, uneducated, and unskilled domestic servants who had to work hard to survive in the society that shunned them. Free blacks were still given restrictions and laws because of their status in society. In the early 1830s, a law in Virginia was made to prohibit all blacks from getting their education. They even took it to the level where free blacks who went out of state to educate themselves were not able to come back and return to their own state. The worst restriction was that blacks could not testify in court. When a slave owner claimed that a free black was their slave, they could not defend themselves, and would have to conform back to their slavery. Despite the terrible treatment given to blacks, some rose above the oppression and became successful, therefore achieving their goals and potentials of being a free black man, leaving a huge impact on society in the 1800s.

    Since the beginning of American history, the black race has been the inferior race during times of slavery and times of freedom for black people. They have had to fight to be seen as legitimate first-class citizens, whether that be through slave uprisings in the pre-civil war era, the civil rights movement in the mid-1900’s, or the Black Lives Matter campaign that was started in 2013. Though not everyone has lived an easy life, and not everyone will, the people who have had it the hardest were the enslaved African-Americans in the early stages of our country.

The resist of white through the civil rights movement can be seen through defensive localism, southern strategy and the war on drugs. Since the late 19th century white American have been fighting to keep control over black Americans. White supremacy can be defined as the belief that white people are superior to other races. Defensive localism is the connection between the racialization and monetization of space. An all white neighborhood had a higher property value than an all black one. White homeowner felt that having a black family in their neighborhood would lower the property value. Southern strategy was the republican party way to gain political support in the south by appealing to racism against blacks. A great example of someone who

crimes,Ku Klux Klan, and so many are being made to prove the point of “White is the superior

White supremacy is when a person believes that because they are white, that they have supremacy over someone else. This is the standard phrase explaining what white supremacy is and has dominated the mentality of our country for decades. It has been prevalent all over the US. The only difference is that in the south, it seems to have been more amplified than in the north.

In 1894, the US Supreme Court gave legal consent to state laws segregating black people and white people with its decision concerning the Plessey v Ferguson case. The decision stated that black and white should be separate but equal, meaning the same standard of facilities for both. In reality it legally enforced a state of affairs that assured that blacks would never be equal, and couldn’t get equal treatment, status or opportunity in their own country. During the Second World War, the black American Gi’s realised that they were fighting for a democracy abroad, which they did not have at home.

In 1866, Congress passed The Civil Rights Act of 1866 which allowed them to be genuine citizens and thus granted them federal protection under the law. Score for the blacks. Furthermore, the South was placed under military rule to ensure that this act was being enforced. During this tremendous time of freedom, blacks were allowed to vote and hold office – something that finally extended a voice and position in our country to their community. Meanwhile, whites were growing tired of all the nonsense. They wanted their beloved Old South back. Many refused to attend the integrated Reconstruction-era state constitutional conventions. Southern whites would use highly exaggerated and publicized incidences of “social injustices” to protect their claims of being thrown over to so-called negro domination. Any action was necessary that could help clinch their argument and overturn the Reconstruction

With scientific racism “scientist saw mental abilities and personality traits as racial characteristics.” With this, whites were seen to be “innately superior to other races.” They had science backing their superiority, and only gained from it, separating themselves from the rest of society. With these ideas put in place by imperialism, white Americans were able to rule the country, and all other races in it because they felt like they were superior, and more fit to govern the nation. By feeling superior to others, the whites segregated themselves from the rest of the community, and aided the division in the

White supremacy and superiority was an idea that turned into a belief among many that the white race was better than the other races (“White Supremacy”, Jenkins). White supremacy gave people the idea that people of the white race were better than African Americans. People on the jury of court trials were almost always white and had this idea in their brain which led to whites always being considered innocent and African Americans guilty. This is shown in To Kill a Mockingbird during the Tom Robinson trial when the jury was all white and they knew Tom was innocent but because he was African American and was going against a white person he was considered guilty of rape (Lee). Even though that particular example was from a book, it is based on true stories that actually occurred. White supremacy was in the brains of whites and states only helped to support this idea. States had “emphasized white superiority” because government were made up of whites and that is what they believed in (“Student Edition Page 236”). When white superiority was brought into the mix of things like the Jim Crow laws, it made discrimination and segregation worse and more common. The idea of white superiority was brought into the court systems so every time an African American was against a white in court, they would have no chance and would be found guilty. In the United States the Jim Crow laws were

As a result, another term must be used to refer to the power and domination that white people have over minorities; therefore, in this paper I will use the term "white supremacy" as opposed to "racism." In the Constitution, in slavery, and even in our cities today, white supremacy has been prevalent throughout our history. White supremacy and black inferiority are the two main problems that our cites face today; once white supremacy and black inferiority are ended in our country, then the majority of the problems in our cities will cease to exist.

Nearly every aspect of American history involves white supremacy. Upon the discovery of the Americas, the Europeans believed they entered into a land inhabited by savages (Boyer 20). According to President Jackson, the mistreatment of the Indians was to “kill the Indian, but save the man” (Williams) in order to purify America. They were forced to adapt to the dominate society or be killed. According to Wiethaus, “the Trail of Tears is a story of tragedy far overshadows the longer term economic consequences of Indian land for the United States economy and the disruption of individual lives for those dispossessed of their homes” (29). The Columbian Exchange involved the slavery of Africans which later became an issue during the 1800’s once the colonies formed into states. African-Americans did not receive emancipation until after the civil war. Before then, slavery was at the heart of the Commercial Revolution which set the stage for the modern era of economic growth (Wright 14). During the 1800’s, states became divided upon the issue of being a Slave or Free State. After the Civil War, Johnson approved of the emancipation of slaves (Boyer 497). However, during the Reconstruction, “black codes” were constructed to prevent African-American to be considered worthy citizens. Many Acts were passed to give them equality, but they still received inhuman treatment (Boyer 509-511). It took years of marches, protest, and riots

The root cause of the problems and issues that faced African Americans from the beginning of the Reconstruction Period well into the 20th century “is the problem of the color-line, -the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea” (W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of the Black Folk, 1903). The most obvious root cause for racism problems and issues African Americans face is white supremacy.

There were many who often assumed roles or stereotypes recognized by the masses of the female gender before the 1940s, of examples such as the naïve princess or the obedient housewife. It was additionally a time of doubts and indecisions due to stock market crash. The concept of modernity was slowly being represented as a mirror or response to the reality. This paper will discuss the way that the female leads were presented in the film Modern Times and It Happened one Night in response the changing ideas of modernity such as gender, class, and sexuality.

“The abuse of language (propaganda) is instrumental to the abuse of power” is significantly portrayed throughout the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. One of propaganda’s main purpose in society is to help leaders, politicians, companies, etc., to gain a great amount of power. Propaganda also helps corrupted leaders execute illegal doings or other misconducts that eventually leads them to abuse their power. In this book, the pigs are examples of how propaganda is to manipulate and take advantage over others. Misleading information to gain control and power for self-benefits are ways one can abuse their own power.

Did Women and Slaves in Ancient Greece Have a Voice? We celebrate the ancient Greeks for coming up with the idea of democracy to create a fair society. However, most of ancient Greek society did not benefit from this “fairness.” Women and slaves made up most of ancient Greek society, but they did not have the same political, legal and societal status (and the fairness that accompanied it) as men. Therefore, from what we can see from a political, legal and economic standpoint and through the literature of the time, ancient Greece was not a fair just and equitable society.