White supremacy

Racism is one of the most disgusting traits humans have because as humans we are all capable of the same things, but for some reason people tends to stereotype individuals.Back in the South, whites and blacks were segregated, and African-Americans people were called names like “nigger, nigga, negro” by white people who thought they were superior just for having different skin color. “ The negro, in his native African wilds, was subject of the grossest superstitions” ( W.D. Wood 264). The quote…

previous white dominance society. The ideology of race used the society’s desire to return to a pre-Civil War atmosphere, and was used as a way to justify the ill-treatment of African Americans. The ideology took into account white supremacist ideologies, poor science, such as the idea that Africans were biologically inferior, and false genetic science based on ancestry as a means of deciding who was African-American. Jim Crow was the articulation of black inferiority, white supremacy and the…

Imagine being treated as a second class citizen because of factors outside of your control. You are humiliated because your skin is darker, society tells you that you lack all of the positive qualities of being a human being, and you are forced to live in constant fear of being prosecuted for actions you didn’t commit. This is what your life would have been like if you were an African American living in America before civil rights. Prior to civil rights American society was based upon a caste…

scale cities, such as New York City, particularly in challenging the two-party system, through the idea of the urban political machine. Coming of Age in Mississippi gives a unique interpretation from Anne Moody, concerning the Jim Crow laws and the white dominated South of the 1900s, and how young African American’s, through individual political…

After a period of decline, white protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century. Individuals who commit hate crimes do not always have to be apart of a group. Many who commit hate crimes may act alone. Individuals commit these hateful acts because of their own…

It is with this approach that analysts can, and should, “inquire whether the activities of institutions and actors chiefly concerned either to protect or to erode white supremacist arrangements help to account for the behavior and changes in the nation’s political institutions, coalitions, and contests they study” (Desmond S. King, 2005). Not using this process, according to King and Smith, must be explicitly justified…

towards the African American race. The KKK terrorized African Americans even after they gained legal equal rights in America out of pure hatred. Africans went into a mass hysteria, scared that they would be hung and used as display; many feared every white male especially in the southern states believing that they could possibly be part of the KKK and kill them. The KKK, specifically during the Lynching Era, created mass hysteria on newly freed African Americans by terrorising them using violent…

freed people in America. As the Civil War ended so did the cotton industry as it no longer had access to a large free labor force. In an effort to hold on to their old ways of life and ideals, several Southerners established white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League. These groups are most known for the terror acts made against the newly…

Groups which supported white supremacy, like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redshirts often terrorized African Americans in order to suppress the rise in power which African Americans found themselves gaining. In The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African…

Jack Flag is a superhero, this is perceived as an aggressive act, so Captain America is not playing his usual protector role. Being a member of Hydra, to most, also that he is siding with “evil people.” However, some people in America identify as white supremacists, whose ideals align with those of Hydra. Therefore, while Captain America is not acting as the usual state, he represents a portion of the nation and a somewhat nationalist superhero role, despite the fans rejection. The Winter…