Racial progress coexists with persistent white supremacist structuring

Evidence

Of course, we are not the same country we were in 1860 or even 1960. Slavery is roundly seen as evil, and legal segregation is ostensibly gone. Black people run Fortune 500 companies; they are mayors of cities and professors at Ivy League schools. But despite the real gains we have made, white supremacy continues to shape this country. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 76

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Majoritarian narratives are presupposition-bundles that normalize white superiority. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 471; White resistance to integration consolidated as working-class panic gave way to middle-class remonstrance — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 163