Transposing white supremacy to supremacy of whites reveals its meaning.
Evidence
Even rearranging the words—from “white supremacy” to “supremacy of whites”—gets us closer to a clearer meaning: the continued prevalence of the idea that white people are superior to, or more valuable than, black and other nonwhite people. And, most important, this subtle transposition gets us to what’s really at stake: that white people’s superior nature thus entitles them to hold positions of power over black and other nonwhite people. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 58
Categorization
- DEFINE: A simple semantic move that uncovers the entitlement-to-power core of the term.
- XREF: connects to: Whiteness is the load-bearing fiction behind America’s racial architecture. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 65; Overt white supremacist groups expose the fabricated content of whiteness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 775; Rearticulation reworks existing racial ideologies to give them new meanings — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1872 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Rearticulation reworks existing racial ideologies to give them new meanings
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1872 - Overt white supremacist groups expose the fabricated content of whiteness.
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 775