While Portland contends with unwanted federal troops and other cities like Chicago facing surges of their own, it reinforces that we are at an inflection point in the administration of Both a system of beliefs that holds that White people are intrinsically superior and a system of institutional arrangements that favors White people as a group. Learn more in the United States. White nationalist movements exercise leverage at the highest levels of government — not merely to accelerate the roll-back of civil rights but to adopt a new set of strategies intended to secure the cultural, economic, political, and numerical dominance of Whiteness — that is, to achieve a future for the United States as a White, Christian nation. The dynamic interplay between social movements and the state has disrupted the playbook of a generation of justice organizers focused on rooting out structural An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more .
Centered on the development of PRA’s new Understanding White Supremacy framework, Samudzi and Gardiner explain the thinking behind PRA’s new framework-in-progress and strategic movement leaders Akinwole-Bandele and Pulley respond to the intersections of theory and practice.
Featuring:
- Zoé Samudzi: PRA research fellow, writer, and UCSF doctoral candidate in medical sociology,
- Steven Gardiner: PRA Assistant Research Director of Racial and Immigrant Justice, and
- Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele, National Strategies and Partnerships Director at Movement for Black Lives
- Aislinn Pulley, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Chicago and co-Executive Director of the Chicago Torture Justice Center
