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Dear Coll ■ ues,
More ustification f❑r creatifg the WHITE SUPREMACY su ect heading mmended 8-17-18.
With warmest regards,
Sanford Berman
4400 Morningside Roa Edina, MN 55416
952 925-5738 WEDNESDAY August 22, 2018 ► n Racist speech inspires UNC students to topple Confederate monument
By ANTONIA NO ORI FARZAN where we stand, less than the ground, according to the In 2011, Domby wrote a let- Washington Post ninety days perhaps after my Daily Tar Heel. Cheering and ter to the editor that was pub- return from Appomattox, I shouting, they began covering lished in the Daily Tar Heel, In 1913, Julian Carr, a prom- horsewhipped a Negro wench the statue with mud and dirt. quoting from Carr's speech inent industrialist and sup- until her skirts hung in shreds, Early Tuesday, the statue in hopes of adding some his- porter of the Ku Klux Klan, was because upon the streets of this was hauled away in a dump torical context to the debate. invited to speak at the unveil- quiet village she had publicly truck Activists picked it tip and ran ing of a statue of a Confeder- insulted and maligned a South- In recent yeais, Carr's with it, he said, making the rac- ate soldier on the campus of ern lady, and then rushed for speech has been a galvanizing ist language in the 1913 address the University of North Caro- protection to these University force for activists demanding a major issue in the campaign lina at Chapel Hill. It had been buildings where was stationed the statue's removal. But it was to remove the statue. placed there by the Daughters a garrison of 100 Federal sol- largely forgotten until 2009, Though Domby said he has of the Confederacy. diers. I performed the pleas- when Adam Domby, then a largely stayed to the sidelines Carr's lengthy address ing duty in the immediate pres- graduate student in history, while UNC debates whether made clear the symbolism of ence of the entire garrison, and came across it in the univer- to remove the statue, he's also the statue. First, he credited for 30 nights afterwards slept sity's archives. heard from people' who said Confederate soldiers with s av- with a double-barrel shotgun JULIA WALL • News & Observer via Associated Press Now an assistant profes- that reading Carr's speech ing "the very life of the Anglo under my head." Protesters covered the "Silent Sam" statue with mud and dirt sor of history at the College forced them to truly under- Saxon race in the South," add- On Monday night, when the early Tuesday after they pulled it down in Chapel Hill, N.C. of Charleston and the author stand what the monument ing, "today, as a consequence statue that he had dedicated of a forthcoming book titled means. the purest strain of the Anglo was pulled from its pedestal ink and her own blood. Little, without white supremacy." "The False Cause: Fraud, Fab- "There's a difference Saxon is to be found in the by a crowd ofprotesters, Carr's a graduate student in history, Another listed victims of rication, and White Suprem- between history and celebra- 13 Southern States — Praise boastful reference to brutally faces charges of defacing a racial violence, beginning acy in Confederate Memory," tion," he said. "It's not like God." beating a black woman wasn't public monument, according with "Unnamed Black woman Domby said Monday night we're going to stop teaching Then, he went on to tell a far from mind. The rally began to the Daily Tar Heel. beaten by Julian Carr." that the speech's blatant cel- the Civil War just because we personal story. as a demonstration of solidar- Early Monday evening, Hours later, after darkness ebration of white supremacy don't have this monument." "I trust I may be pardoned ity with Maya Little, who was student activists covered the fell, those banners ended up is noteworthy. He added: "I can teach them for one allusion, howbeit it is arrested in April after reading statue — now known as "Silent providing cover for protest- "Carr made it explicitly in class about Jim Crow, but I rather personal," Carr said. aloud from Carr's speech and Sam" — with gray fabric ban- ers. They tied ropes around clear that this was about the need them to feel comfortable "One hundred yards from covering the statue with red ners. One read, "For a world the statue and toppled it to use of violence," he said. walking to my class." 8-17-18
Policy & Standards Division Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540-4305
Dear Colleagues,
Having lately read Ta-Nehisi Coates' We were eight years in power: an American tragedy (2017), I can confidently declare that it's overarching theme is "White supremacy." Based an that conclusion plus the enclosed documentation, including numerous assignment candidate citations, I recommend establishing a subject heading for
WHITE SUPREMACY
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952 925-5738 white supremacy. A doctrine espousing the cultural, political, and "racial" superior- ity of white 'people over nonwhite people; also the policies that ensure the subordination of nonwhite to white people, and the social or legal enforce- ment of separation between the races. After the Civil War, southern policy that sought to maintain the political, eco- nomic, and social supremacy of white people over African Americans was known as white supremacy. Today, those identified as white supremacists not only hold racist views of African Americans; they are often antis emitic and nativist andgovern- in many instances anti-big ment. Some also have ties to the militia movement. The meaning, or value, of the term 1 white supremacy varies greatly depend- ing on the speaker. For example, in the Black Power movement, it refers to the 1 oppressiveness of white domination (Malcolm X referred to the need for black people to liberate themselves from the "bonds of white supremacy"). For ;1 someone in the white supremacy 'move- d ment it is something to foster. In the Encyclopaadic 1 is 1960s, when integration was a major le- gal issue, some white people voiced their opposition to integration with slogans Dictionary of Ethnic Bias promoting white supremacy. Racist white groups often deny that they are white supremacists, accepting only the in the United States tem' separatist. White supremacist groups have recently been known col- lectively as the "white-right movement." "The white supremacist... was found
guilty of murdering Medgar Evers more than three decades ago and immediately Philip H. Herbst sentenced to life imprisonment" (Char- lotte Observer, 6 February 1994, 1). See also FOURTEEN WORDS, PROMAJOR- ITY, WHITE POWER STRUCTURE, WHITE SLAVE MASTER.
INTERCULTURAL PRESS INC. WIKIPEDIA White supremacy
White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races, and that therefore, white people should be dominant over other races. White supremacy has roots in scientific racism, and it often relies on pseudoscientific arguments. Like most similar movements such as neo-Nazism, white supremacists typically oppose members of other races as well as Jews.
The term is also typically used to describe a political ideology that perpetuates and maintains the social, political, historical or institutional domination by white people (as evidenced by historical and contemporary sociopolitical structures such as the Atlantic slave trade, Jim Crow laws in the United States, and apartheid in South Africa) .111[21 Different forms of white supremacism put forth different conceptions of who is considered white, and different groups of white supremacists identify various racial and cultural groups as their primary enemy.m
In academic usage, particularly in usage which draws on critical race theory, the term "white supremacy" can also refer to a political or socioeconomic system where white people enjoy a structural advantage (privilege) over other ethnic groups, on both a collective and individual level.
Contents History of white supremacy United States Germany South Africa Zimbabwe/Rhodesia Russia Academic use of the term ideologies and movements See also References External links
History of white supremacy White supremacy has ideological foundations that date back to 17th-century scientific racism, the predominant paradigm of human variation that helped shape international relations and racial policy from the latter part of the Age of Enlightenment until the late loth century (marked by decolonization and the abolition of apartheid in South Africa in 1991, followedby that country's first multiracial elections in 1994).
United States White supremacy was dominant in the United States both before and after the American Civil War, and it persisted for decades after the Reconstruction. Era.(41 In the antebellum Soutb, this included the holding of African Americans in chattel slavery, with four million of them denied freedom (s1 The outbreak of the Civil War saw the desire to uphold white supremacy being cited as a cause for state secession(61 and the formation of the Confederate States of America.r/ In an editorial about Native Americans in 1890, author L. Frank Baum wrote: "The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians.41
In some parts of the United States, many people who were considered non-white were disenfranchised, barred from government office, and prevented from holding most government jobs well into the second half of the loth century. Professor Leland T. Saito of the University of Southern California writes: "Throughout the history of the United States, race The Battle of Liberty Place monument has been used by whites for legitimizing and creating difference and social, economic and political exclusion."M The in Louisiana was erected in 1891 by the Naturalization Act of 1790 limited U.S. citizenship to whites only.11°I white dominated New Orleans government. An inscription added in The denial of social and political freedom for minorities continued into the mid-20th century, resulting in the civil rights 1932 states that the 1876 US movement1113 Sociologist Stephen Klineberg has stated that U.S. immigration laws prior to 1965 clearly declared "that Presidential Election "recognized white (121 Northern Europeans are a superior subspecies of the white race" The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 opened supremacy in the South and gave us entry to the U.S. to immigrants other than traditional Northern European and Germanic groups, and significantly altered our state. It was removed in 2017 and the demographic mix in the U.S as a result P) Many U.S. states banned interracial marriage through anti-miscegenation placed in storage. laws until 1967, when these laws were invalidated by the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Loving v, VirgLnig. These mid-century gains had a major impact on white Americans' political views; segregation and white racial superiority, which had been publicly endorsed in the 194os became minority views within the white community by the mid-1970s, and continued to decline into 199os polls to a single-digit percentage.E13104t For sociologist Howard Winant, these shifts marked the end of "monolithic white supremacy" in the United States .051 After the mid-1960s, white supremacy remained an important ideology in the American far-rightE181 Howard Wmant writes that, "On the far right the cornerstone of white identity is belief in an ineluctable, unalterable racialized difference between whites and nonwhites:417i According to Kathleen Belew, a historian of race and racism in the United States, white militancy shifted after the Vietnam War from supporting the existing racial order to a more radical position—self-described as "white power" or "white nationalism"—committed to overthrowing the United States government and establishing a white homeland.1181119 White supremacist groups such as the EXEC, neo-Nazi organizations, the Christian Identity movement, and racist skinheads make up two of the three major strands of violent right-wing movements in the United States (the third is anti-government militia organizations) (201!211
Some academics argue that outcomes from the 2016 United States Presidential Election reflect ongoing challenges with white supremacy. Psychologist Janet Helms suggested that the norming behaviors of social institutions of education, government, and healthcare are organized around the "birthright of...the power to control society's resources and determine the rules for [those resources]".121 Educators, literary theorists, and other political experts have raised similar questions, connecting the scapegoating of disenfranchised populations to white superiority52-4f2a1
Germany Nazism promoted the idea of a superior Germanippeople or Aryan race in Germany during the early loth century. Notions of white supremacy and Aryan racial superiority were combined in the 19th century, with white supremacists maintaining the belief that white people were members of an Aryan "master race" which was superior to other races, particularly the Jews, who were described as the "Semitic race", Slays, and Gypsies, which they associated with "cultural sterility". Arthur de Gobineau, a French racial theorist and aristocrat, blamed the fall of the ancient regime in France on racial degeneracy caused by racial
.e4 .iri•Wion 3ular ei*a *mita! intermixing, which he argued had destroyed the "purity" of the Nordic or Germanic race. Gobineau's theories, which attracted .ceer ic nsmwrs kr aa zem v. *a** rm ninwnen uminr OW a a strong following in Germany, emphasized the existence of an irreconcilable polarity between Aryan or Germanic peoples and .•V I" aina too a'tnti ran 1?.ennt.ian ram aria holo. Jewish culture 1241 itiftenftOntibeT • ro-i9e0TiAr7kkror &tie, As the Nazi Party's chief racial theorist, Alfred Rosenberg oversaw the construction of a human racial 'ladder" that justified
•M31:0)i Hitler's racial and ethnic_policies. Rosenberg promoted the Nordic theme, which regarded Nordics as the "master race", •: • I..") lwev..7+2.x.re. 211p.el tv superior to all others, including other Aryans (Indo-Europeans)1253 Rosenberg gat the racial term qntermensch from the title of Klansman Lothrop Stoddard's 1922 book The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man.1261 It was later adopted by the Nazis from that book's German version Der Kulturumsturz: Die Drohung des Untertnenschen (1925).1271 -. Zobeoftraf Rosenberg was the leading Nazi who attributed the concept of the East-European "under man" to Stoddard.1281 An advocate of the U.S. immigration laws that favored Northern Europeans, Stoddard wrote primarily on the alleged dangers posed by I"... N. • areurit. . do azia7kitrienypt "colored" peoples to white civilization, and wrote The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy in 1920. In • • • establishing a restrictive entry system for Germany in 1925, Hitler wrote of his admiration for America's immigration laws: :ter:: "The American Union categorically refuses the immigration of physically unhealthy elements, and simply excludes the •-• immigration of certain races."1291
Poster of the Nazi paper Der German praise for America's institutional racism, previously found in Hitler's Mein Kampf, was continuous throughout the Starmer (1935) condemning early 1930's, and Nazi lawyers were advocates of the use of American models.M Race-based U.S. citizenship and anti- relations between Jews and non- miscegenation laws directly inspired the Nazi's two principal Nuremberg racial laws—the Citizenship Law and the Blood Law. Jewish Germans 130] In order to preserve the Aryan or Nordic race the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, which forbade sexual relations and marriages between Germans and Jews, and later between Germans and Romani and Slays. The Nazis used the Mendelian inheritance theory to argue that social traits were innate, claiming that there was a racial nature associated with certain general traits such as inventiveness or criminal behavior.131
According to the 2012 annual report of Germany's interior intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, at the time there were 26,000 right-wing extremists living in Germany, including 6000 neo-Nazis 1321 South Africa A number of Southern African nations experienced severe racial tension and conflict during global decolonization, particularly as white Africans of European ancestry fought to protect their preferential social and political status. Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under the Dutch Empire, and it continued when the British took over the cape of Good Hope in 1795. Apartheid was introduced as an officially structured policy by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party after the general election of 1.948. Apartheid's legislation divided inhabitants into four racial groups—"black", "white", "coloured", and "Indian", with coloured divided into several sub-classifications.1331 In 1970, the Afrikaner-run government abolished non-white political representation, and starting that year black pule were deprived of South African citizenship?) South Africa abolished apartheid in 1.991.)35)(381
Zimbabwe/Rhodesia In Rhodesia, a predominantly white government issued its own unilateral declaration of independence from the United Kingdom during an unsuccessful attempt to avoid immediate majority rule.137) Following the Rhodesian Bush War which was fought by African nationalists, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith acceded to biracial political representation in 1978 and the state achieved recognition from the United Kingdom as Zimbabwe in 1980.E381
Russia Neo-Nazi organisations embracing white supremacist ideology are present in many countries of the world. In 2007, it was claimed that Russian neo-Nazis accounted for "half of the world's total" 1391 Academic use of the term The term white supremacy is used in academic studies of racial power to denote a system of structural or societal racism which privileges white people over others, regardless of the presence or the absence of racial hatred. White racial advantages occur at both a collective and an individual level (ceteris paribus, i. e., when individuals are compared that do not relevantly differ except in ethnicity). Legal scholar Frances Lee Ansley explains this definition as follows:
By "white supremacy" I do not mean to allude only to the self-conscious racism of white supremacist Irate groups. I refer instead to a political, economic and cultural system in which whites overwhelmingly control power and material resources, conscious and unconscious ideas of white 'superiority and entitlement are widespread, and relations of white dominance and non-white subordination are daily reenacted across a broad array of institutions and social settings .1"1")
This and similar definitions have been adopted or proposed by Charles Mills,1421 bell hoolcs,(431 David Gfilborn,E441 Jessie Daniels,(451 and Neely Fuller Jr,1461 and they are widely used in critical race theory and intersectional feminism. Some anti-racist educators, such as Betita Martinez and the Challenging White Supremacy workshop, also use the term in this way. The term expresses historic continuities between a pre-civil rights movement era of open white supremacism and the current racial power structure of the United States. It also expresses the visceral impact of structural racism through "provocative and brutal" language that characterizes racism as "nefarious, global, systemic, and constant".(471 Academic users of the term sometimes prefer it to racism because it allows for a distinction to be drawn between racist feelings and white racial advantage or privilege (44(491501
The term's recent rise in popularity among leftist activists has been characterized by some as counterproductive. John McWhorter, a specialist in language and race relations, has described its use as straying from its commonly accepted meaning to encompass less extreme issues, thereby cheapening the term and potentially derailing productive discussion1511(521(531 Political columnist Kevin Drum attributes the term's growing popularity to frequent use by Ta-Nehisi Coates, describing it as a "terrible fad" which fails to convey nuance. He claims that the term should be reserved for those who are trying to promote the idea that whites are inherently superior to blacks and not used to characterize less blatantly racist beliefs or actions.)541(551 The use of the academie definition of white supremacy has been criticized by Conor Friedersdorf for the confusion it creates for the general public inasmuch as it differs from the more common dictionary definition; he argues that it is likely to alienate those it hopes to convince.1551 Ideologies and movements Supporters of Nordicism consider the "Nordic peoples" to be a superior race.(55) By the early 19th century, white supremacy was attached to emerging theories of racial hierarchy. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer attributed cultural primacy to the white race:
The highest civilization and culture, apart from the ancient Hindus and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmans, the Incas, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands. All this is due to the fact that necessity is the mother of invention because those tribes that emigrated early to the north, and there gradually became white, had to develop all their intellectual powers and invent and perfect all the arts in their struggle with need, want and misery, which in their many forms were brought about by the climate.1
The eugenicist Madison Grant argued in his 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, that the Nordic race had been responsible for most of humanity's great achievements, and that admixture was "race suicide".1581 In this book, Europeans who are not of Germanic origin but have Nordic characteristics such as blonde/red hair and blue/green/gray eyes, were considered to be a Nordic admixture and suitable for Aryanization.1591
In the United States, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the group most associated with the white supremacist movement. Many white supremacist groups are based on the concept of preserving genetic purity, and do not focus solely on discrimination based on skin color.") The KKK's reasons for supporting racial segregation are not primarily based on religious ideals, but some Klan groups are openly Protestant. The KKK and other white supremacist groups like / ,-an Nations, The Order and the White Patriot Party are considered antisemitic.(6°1 Nazi Germany promulgated white supremacy based on the belief that the Aryan race, or the Germans, were the master race. It was combined with a eugenics programme that aimed for racial hygiene through compulsory sterilization of sick individuals and extermination of Untermenschen ("subhuman"): Slays, Jews and Romani, which eventually culminated in the Holocaust[611162P311841t653
Christian Identity is another movement closely tied to white supremacy. Some white supremacists identify themselves as Odinists, although many Odinists reject white supremacy. Some white supremacist groups, such as the South African Boeremag, conflate elements of Christianity and Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a Odiniqm. Creativity. (formerly known as "The World Church of the rally in 1923. Creator") is atheistic and it denounces Christianity and other theistic religions.166"71 Aside from this, its ideology is similar to that of many Christian Identity groups because it believes in the antisemitic conspiracy The Good Citizen theory that there is a "Jewish conspiracy" in control of governments, the banking industry and the media. Matthew F. Hale, 1926, published by Pillar of Fire Church founder of the World Church of the Creator, has published articles stating that all races other than white are "mud races", which is what the group's religion teaches.M1
The white supremacist ideology has become associated with a racist faction of the skinhead subculture, despite the fact that when the skinhead culture first developed in the United Kingdom in the late 196os, it was heavily influenced by black fashions and music, especially Jamaican reggae and alca, and African American soul music. [6131[69)170)
White supremacist recruitment activities are primarily conducted at a grassroots level as well as on the Internet. Widespread access to the Internet has led to a dramatic increase in white supremacist websites.1711 The Internet provides a venue to openly express white supremacist ideas at little social cost, because people who post the information are able to remain anonymous. See also