white supremacy
Caucasian superiority doctrine
White supremacy is the belief that white people are inherently superior to other races and should dominate society.
The term describes both explicit ideologies—Ku Klux Klan membership, Nazi sympathies—and systemic patterns that maintain white dominance in institutions, wealth, and power.
White supremacy shaped American law for centuries.
A white supremacist holds or promotes these beliefs.
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- ethnocentrismBelief one's culture superior
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
- eugenicsControlled human reproduction theory
segregationism · fascism · neo-Nazism · ultranationalism · racial purity · master race · blood and soil · scientific racism
White supremacist hate organization
- skinheadClose-cropped subculture member
- alt-rightRacist reactionary political movement
- Proud BoysAmerican far-right extremist organization
- militia groupsArmed civilian organizations
Racial separation policy
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
slavery · antebellum · sundown towns · racial covenants · lynching · convict leasing · residential segregation · voter suppression
Secession-era Southern banner
- swastikaCross with angled arms
- nooseLoop that constricts
- hoodAttached head covering
- Celtic crossRinged Christian symbol
iron cross · tiki torch · rebel flag · Dixie · Lost Cause
Guaranteed individual legal protections
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- antiracismActive opposition to bigotry
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- Black Lives MatterCivil rights movement against racist violence
NAACP · integration · reparations · decolonization · reconstruction · sit-ins · boycotts · antifascism
racism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- ethnocentrismBelief one's culture superior
- nationalismDevotion to one's country
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
eugenics · segregationism · fascism · neo-Nazism · ultranationalism · racial purity · master race · blood and soil · scientific racism · social Darwinism
Ku Klux Klan
White supremacist hate organization
- skinheadClose-cropped subculture member
- alt-rightRacist reactionary political movement
- Proud BoysAmerican far-right extremist organization
apartheid
Racial separation policy
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- segregationForced separation by group
- redliningRefusing loans by neighborhood
colonialism · slavery · antebellum · sundown towns · racial covenants · lynching · convict leasing · residential segregation · voter suppression · institutional racism
Confederate flag
Secession-era Southern banner
Celtic cross · iron cross · tiki torch · rebel flag · Dixie · Lost Cause
civil rights
Guaranteed individual legal protections
- abolitionFormal discontinuation of practice
- antiracismActive opposition to bigotry
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
Black Lives Matter · NAACP · integration · reparations · decolonization · reconstruction · sit-ins · boycotts · antifascism · racial justice
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- racismracism, racial bias, racial discrimination, bigotry, racial prejudice
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- racial injusticesystemic racism, institutional racism, racial profiling, racial bias, discrimination
- radicalismradical, extremism, radicalism, militancy, fanaticism
- extremismextremism, extremists, fanaticism, radicalism, radicalization
white supremacyracial equality
Equal treatment regardless of ancestry
antiracism · racial justice · multiculturalism · Pan-Africanism · Afrocentrism
white supremacyequality
Same status for all
egalitarianism · pluralism · inclusivity · human dignity · universal rights
white supremacycivil rights movement
Organized effort against discrimination
abolitionism · Black Lives Matter · anti-apartheid movement · Reconstruction · Underground Railroad