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    1b. The Ku Klux Klan or KKK is a white supremacy group that has existed for many years, and still exists in small numbers today. In this scene, members of the KKK burned a cross to show their hate towards Bigger, not only for the crimes he committed against a white woman, but also because he is black. Bigger felt angry and ashamed. He did not want the preachers wooden cross anymore. Bigger did not want the society to look down on him. He felt that the cross was a sign of weakness. This scene is…

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    White Supremacy: It’s a strange concept, isn’t it? To say that one race is somehow genetically superior to another. It dates back to slavery, in which, in the most simplistic way possible, white people descended on America, and, in the same way that they claimed the country’s soil as their own; individuals were declared the property of other people. This, to the vast majority of modern citizens, would be unthinkable. I mean, the very concept of dictating who has the right to marry and who has…

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    2. Definitions 2.1 White supremacy A belief that white people are more superior to other races, particularly the black race, therefore should in this way overpower society (Anderson, 2005: 12). 2.2Segregation Spartacus educational (internet source) states that segregation is the separation of individuals into ethnic or racial social occasions. It may apply to works out, for instance, eating in a diner, drinking from a water fountain, using an open can, going to class etc. 2.3Nationalism A…

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    for their own rights. The white supremacy was protesting for the fact that different races have the same rights as them, and that they are sharing the same country of a different races. In addition, the opposing party was fighting for their own rights, and they were protesting against the opposing party. The white supremacy group was motivated and captivated by Donald Trumps campaign when he was running for president. My opinion on this would be that the white supremacy group was taking it to…

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    go beyond the racial thinking that, deep down, nearly every American has known is not a wise way of thinking – the funny and often tragic part being that this anti-historical belief is itself an inheritance from our past.” —Scott L. Malcomson White Supremacy is…

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    theory of the white supremacy flower model to teach the origins of racism. The belief system ideology of racism was created by elite white supremacists to hold the inferior minorities/blacks group in check and rule them in whichever way they see fit to. An example of this would be slavery, the holocaust Etc...The…

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    In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee ventures upon white supremacy exposed in Maycomb County, Alabama throughout the 1930s. Jean Louise Finch, six-year-old protagonist known as Scout, raised in a non-biased home, yet she is forced to mature due to bigotry and stereotyping she witnesses in her community during a litigation. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, a respected lawyer, attempts to vindicate Tom Robinson, the accused defendant, in a white opposing black lawsuit. Atticus provides the court…

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    constructs have been one of the most intensely analyzed entities. White framing, systemic denial of racism, promulgating the virtuosity of whiteness, and other factors have played a key role in facilitating the growth of these constructs from pre-colonial times until today. The study of these concepts over the past semester has proved to be valuable in not only understanding White supremacy but combatting it properly. Specifically, White supremacy justifies discriminatory actions which lead to…

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    black people in this country are evolve around racism, white supremacy or capitalism. However, what came first, racism, white supremacy or capitalism? Today many witness much of the exploitation and oppression of black people is the result of plantation capitalism. This also, carries how the harm caused by plantation capitalism might be address. First, we must know the reason these questions come up is because we witness how white supremacy comes out in plantation capitalism. Part of this…

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    the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age continued to operate as a white supremacy despite the passing of 14th amendment in 1868. To Americans of the Gilded Age, all ethnicities are ranked according to “science”, with Anglo-Saxons proudly sitting on top of the pyramid. In this construct, some can elevate to whiteness, others need segregation and still others exclusion. This racial ontology prevailed among whites and non-whites who aspired to become white, successfully fracturing the minority communities…

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