white supremacismn.
/ˌwʌɪt sᵿˈprɛməsɪz(ə)m/, /ˌwʌɪt suːˈprɛməsɪz(ə)m/, /ˌwʌɪt sjᵿˈprɛməsɪz(ə)m/, /ˌwʌɪt sjuːˈprɛməsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌ(h)waɪt səˈprɛməˌsɪzəm/, /ˌ(h)waɪt suˈprɛməˌsɪzəm/ The doctrine that white people are superior to other peoples, and should therefore have greater power, authority, or status; advocacy or practice of such a doctrine. Cf. white supremacy n.
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1948 Chicago Defender 18 Sept. 14/3 In the heart of the Deep South where White Supremacism the blood brother of Communism holds forth under the banner of States Rights for power of life and death over many millions of colored people.
1958 Listener 12 June 967/1 The steady propulsion towards white supremacism.
1968 Times 7 Sept. 9/2 A settlement which..does save the country from crude white supremacism, and does leave a political future open to the blacks.
1979 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 6 He [sc. Ian Smith] is well aware that the noisy and active minority who regard him as the totem of white supremacism will call for his blood.
1987 T. E. Yarbrough Passion for Justice iii. 42 Among certain of Judge Waring's contemporaries, however, there is doubt as to how deeply committed he was to the southern cause of white supremacism.
1995 Guardian 29 June i. 12/4 The skinheads are united by a doctrine of white supremacism, anti-Semitism and violence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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