Fran Shor

Abstract

Emerging as a racial formation under specific socio-historical conditions, white supremacy enacted racial projects that institutionalized terror as a function of its hegemonic rule. From the war capitalism of the settler colonialist period in North America to the racial capitalism of that same time frame, extermination of Native Americans and enslavement of people of African descent became instruments of institutionalized white supremacist terror. From colonial to contemporary times white supremacist savage war and white racial framing of policing reinforced institutionalized white supremacist terror. Nonetheless, resistance to and deconstructions of white supremacy contested and continues to contest those racial projects and that white racial frame.

Keywords

Institutionalized terror, racial formation, racial projects, white racial frame, white racial frame policing, white supremacist savage war, white supremacy

From: Critical Sociology 2020 46 (1)

Editor: Wang Yi