...This chapter is about the racial violence. Although racial violence enforced white supremacy with the immediate strength of a policeman’s club, segregation as a system gained its staying power from its rootedness in the social relations of daily economic life. In this respect, it was not merely...

... of a Nation (1915) suggests that the film's twinned celebrations of cinematography and white supremacy cover a fear of the insurrectionary potential of the theater's segregated balcony as a site that resists, and hence elicits, directorial control. Birth of a Nation is an inevitable...

...This chapter discusses the ideas and practices of white supremacy, which did not begin or end in the South, but shaped generations of white folk. Segregation actually began “north of slavery,” where nominally free states imposed systematic exclusion of blacks from better housing, jobs, schools...

... their whiteness—an identity that provided them with resources, power, and opportunity—by ensuring that African Americans would remain “the defining other despite how much they conform to White standards.” This system incentivizes people of diverse backgrounds to invest in the workings of white supremacy in hopes...

... organizers to create unions. These two factors were further compounded by several other issues such as workers' divergent ideologies about unions and resistance, as well as Latinos' investment in structures of white supremacy. Laborers’ International Union of North America LIUNA LIUNA Laborers...

... the 1913 Pass Laws the Stallard Commission the Anglo Boer War bywoners Fordson tractors Great Depression the KwaFord mixed race people in Brazil white supremacy Dewey John social sciences the Teachers College of Columbia University World War I Anglo Saxonism Catholicism Kramer Paul Lewis...

...-transcending radicalism exemplified by vanguards such as W.E.B. Du Bois and John Brown. It shows that, for all of its staying power, white supremacy in the United States has always been a pursuit rather than a completed project, that divisions among whites have mattered greatly, and that “nonwhite...

... hereditarianism into state, city, and country concerns and policies. Eugenics also reinforced doctrines of white supremacy and Manifest Destiny that dated back to the 1840s, providing new and seemingly modern grounds for racial segregation and stereotypes. Indeed, California was home to an interwoven tripartite...

...This chapter examines the interrelationships among indigeneity, settler colonialism, and white supremacy within the context of Michael Omi and Howard Winant's concept of the racial state. It argues that insufficient exchange between ethnic studies and Native studies prevents us from imagining...