White Supremacy Defined
The following definition comes via the Dismantling Racism Works web page which contains ideas and information for teaching about racism.
The idea (ideology) that white people and the ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions of white people are superior to People of Color and their ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and actions. While most people associate white supremacy with extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazis, white supremacy is ever present in our institutional and cultural assumptions that assign value, morality, goodness, and humanity to the white group while casting people and communities of color as worthless (worth less), immoral, bad, and inhuman and "undeserving." Drawing from critical race theory, the term "white supremacy" also refers to a political or socio-economic system where white people enjoy structural advantage and rights that other racial and ethnic groups do not, both at a collective and an individual level.
Overview Alt Right Movement
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Alt-Right from Opposing ViewpointsInformation on the Alt-Right movement with links to more resources.
Selected Titles from our Catalog
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Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by
Call Number: E184.A1 R4467 2014Publication Date: 2014 -
Anger and racial politics : the emotional foundation of racial attitudes in America by
Call Number: E185.615 .B2846 2014 -
Racing for innocence : whiteness, gender, and the backlash against affirmative action by
Call Number: HF5549.5.A34 P54 2012 -
American swastika: inside the white power movement's hidden spaces of hate by
Call Number: E184.A1 S599 2010ebPublication Date: 2010 -
Beneath the surface of white supremacy : denaturalizing U.S. racisms past and present by
Call Number: E184.A1 J86 2015 -
Beyond redistribution : White supremacy and racial justice by
Call Number: HT1521 .G675 2010 -
Blood and politics : the history of the white nationalist movement from the margins to the mainstream by
Call Number: E184.A1 Z47 2009 -
Beyond the white negro : empathy and anti-racist reading by
Call Number: E184.A1 D2828 2014 -
Romantic Violence by
Call Number: HV6439.U5 P53 2015 -
Combating Hatred by
Call Number: LB3013.3 .F87 2009 -
I Am Not your Negro (DVD) by
Call Number: E185.61 .I366 2017 -
The Color of Sex by
ISBN: 0822326205Publication Date: 2001-02-08
Additional Readings
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Charlottesville SyllabusResources from JSTOR
Web Resources
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new windowMore than 320 full-text magazines and journals, 540,000 records, and coverage of more than 600 journals from around the world. Subjects include criminology, criminal justice, corrections and prisons, criminal investigations, forensic sciences and investigation, substance abuse and addiction, and probation and parole.
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Criminology: a SAGE Full-Text Collection This link opens in a new windowContent not current. Full-text Access to legacy journals only.
More than 25,000 articles in 38 peer-reviewed journals, with access back to 1999. Subjects include corrections, criminal justice, family and domestic violence, forensic psychology, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, penology, and policing. -
Criminal Justice Collection This link opens in a new windowBrings together information on every major topic in criminal justice from more than 250 journals.
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Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new windowIntegrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search; updated daily and offers 250 different country topic pages and more than 400 Issue pages. Global Issues Viewpoints contains more than 3,000 exclusive commentaries that provide background and guidance on significant topics.
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Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new windowCovers today's hottest social issues, offering differing views to help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, infographics, and more.
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Diversity Studies Collection This link opens in a new windowMore than 2.7 million articles from 150 journals, updated daily, exploring cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community.
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Historical New York Times (ProQuest News & Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowProvides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time, covering 1851-2013.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowMulti-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
Related Library Resources
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Take Action
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Ten Ways to Fight HateFrom the Southern Poverty Law Center
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