Recognizing, Understanding, and Defining Systemic and Individual White Supremacy

Purpose: This paper examines white supremacy through a lens that aims to better and more inclusively define it systemically and individually.

Key content: White supremacist culture is a widespread ideology baked into beliefs, norms, and standards of groups, communities, towns, states, and nations that teaches people both overtly and covertly that whiteness holds intrinsic value. Each section of this paper explores the diverse social and policy implications that influence the creation and sustenance of white supremacy in human culture, systems, and social settings by exploring the historical foundations as well as implications domestically and internationally.