Essay on White Supremacy and Violent Crime

Introduction
White supremacy is a dogma that manipulates US politics and affects all relations in American society. It is sustained by rigid ideological categories. The construction of racial categories, while varying greatly over time, has always been based on the economic, social, and political aspirations of people of European descent. Throughout European history, racial definitions have been based on lineage, skin hue, and religion. This system was institutionalized in America through systematic violence, distorted Christianity, and dubious science.

White Race
The concept of a white race aggressively struggling against all others to maintain its presumed purity is an expression of the European model of white supremacy, based not necessarily on skin color, but on social stratifications and values assigned by the dominant group. These categories and values a series of immunities, privileges, rights, and assumptions that became the foundation for ideological whiteness are not entirely dependent on skin color or even class status. The creation of racial categories, including "whiteness," affects identity construction and social relationships. Because white supremacy springs from the identity crisis of European nationalism, it is not surprising that it replicates similar identity crises among its victims. Thus, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, and nativism are interdependent in the practice of white supremacy. Other components are national chauvinism and religious fundamentalism. (Sharfstein, 2003)

These categories are not inherent, natural, or biologically determined. Rather they are artificial beliefs created by social, economic, and political conditions. Such beliefs have altered the laws, language, and customs of the United States in the service of regulating social relations. Helen Page, an African American anthropologist, defines white supremacy in the US as an "ideological, structural and historic stratification process by which the population of European descent has been able to intentionally sustain, to its own best advantage, the dynamic mechanics...................

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