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Meaning of white supremacy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of white supremacy
    alt-of, uncountable
  2. The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.
  3. A situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.

Equivalents

Examples

“Among Southern whites, the defence of slavery slid into a defence of white supremacy, since that was a useful way to unite the white population behind a coherent ideology; most Southerners did not actually own slaves, and had no necessary interest in defending that institution alone.”
“Whiteness is the cultural, social, economic, behavioral, material, and emotional embodiment of White supremacy, and it is strategically invisible by asserting its normalcy (Frankenberg, 1997).”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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