white supremacy

white supremacy
noun Date: 1864 a doctrine based on a belief in the inherent superiority of the white race over other races and the correlative necessity for the subordination of nonwhites to whites in all relationships

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  • white supremacy groups — Organizations that believe the Caucasian race is superior to all other races and therefore seek either to separate the races in the United States or to remove all non Caucasians from the nation. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law …   Law dictionary

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  • white supremacy — UK / US noun [uncountable] the belief that white people are better than people of other races Derived word: white supremacist noun countable Word forms white supremacist : singular white supremacist plural white supremacists …   English dictionary

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