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The Politics of White Supremacy in Academics

White supremacy in academia is a description of a condition, which is that whiteness. In popular imagination or the rest of America, a white supremacist was a Klansman. Is it just a coincidence that academia chose to use the term as something that if you were to call it to a white person would necessarily cause them to deny it?

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