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• white supremacy
  white supremacy

  noun

  the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
• White supremacy
  White supremacy

  noun

  the theory or belief that White people are innately superior to people of other races

white supremacy

American  

[hwahyt suh-prem-uh-see, wahyt] / ˈhwaɪt səˈprɛm ə si, ˈwaɪt /

noun

1. the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial and ethnic groups, especially Black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.

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White supremacy British  

noun

1. the theory or belief that White people are innately superior to people of other races

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Other Word Forms

• White supremacist
  noun
• white supremacist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of white supremacy

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70

Example Sentences

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"For 55 years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stood as a beacon of hope, fighting white supremacy and various forms of injustice," Fair said in a video message.

From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026

Taylor agrees that white supremacy runs through Palm Springs’s history and that white residents today must be willing to own up to that legacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2024

These were key aspects of the abolitionists’ post–Civil War effort to banish white supremacy from all levels of governance.

From Slate ● May 23, 2024

King was removed from his committee assignments after lamenting that white supremacy and white nationalism had become offensive terms.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

For decades, this had been the seat of white supremacy, and now it was the site of a rainbow gathering of different colors and nations for the installation of South Africa’s first democratic, nonracial government.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“That’s something that we really have to have to address. White supremacy is absolutely something that we have to look at as not only a hate crime issue but a national security issue.”

From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2022

The Black Lives Matter movement describes itself as aimed at eradicating White supremacy and interrupting violence against Black communities.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2022

"White supremacy will not have the last word," he said.

From BBC ● May 17, 2022

The body of research examining misogyny as an extreme ideology and incels specifically, as well as its intersection with other ideologies like White supremacy, as a field of research, is growing,' she added.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2022

One of the founders of the NAACP, a brilliant writer and scholar, and the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, Du Bois openly rejected assumptions of White supremacy.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014