white supremacy

English

Alternative forms

• white supremacism

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: white su‧prem‧a‧cy

Noun

white supremacy (uncountable)

1. The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 909:

     Among Southern whites, the defence of slavery slid into a defence of white supremacy, since that was a useful way to unite the white population behind a coherent ideology; most Southerners did not actually own slaves, and had no necessary interest in defending that institution alone.

2. A situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.

Hypernyms

• racism

Derived terms

• white supremacist

Translations

ideology

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白人優越主義／白人优越主义 (báirényōuyuèzhǔyì), 白人至上主義／白人至上主义 (zh) (báirénzhìshàngzhǔyì)

• Finnish: valkoinen ylivalta
• French: suprématie blanche (fr) f
• Georgian: თეთრკანიანთა უზენაესობა (tetrḳanianta uzenaesoba), თეთრკანიანთა უპირატესობა (tetrḳanianta uṗiraṭesoba), თეთრების ბატონობა (tetrebis baṭonoba)
• German: weiße Vorherrschaft f, Überlegenheit der Weißen f
• Hungarian: fehér felsőbbrendűség
• Italian: suprematismo bianco m
• Japanese: 白人至上主義 (はくじんしじょうしゅぎ, hakujin shijōshugi), 白人優越主義 (はくじんゆうえつしゅぎ, hakujin yūetsushugi)
• Persian: برترپنداری نژاد سفید (bartarpendâri-ye nežâd-e sefid)
• Polish: biała supremacja f
• Russian: превосхо́дство бе́лых n (prevosxódstvo bélyx)
• Spanish: supremacía blanca f, supremacismo blanco m
• Swedish: vit makt c, vit överhöghet c
• Vietnamese: người da trắng thượng đẳng

See also

• black supremacy

Further reading

• “white supremacy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• white supremacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia