A Post-Racial America: It’s Better, and Worse, Than You Think
It is easier to destroy a myth than to replace it.
Category: Replacing White Supremacy
White Supremacy Thrives in System 1
As we try to escape the distorting influence of a founding mythology built on racism, it might be helpful to review how these subconscious biases operate.
Myths Define Truth: Why We Live in the Age of Fake News
You can lie, cheat and steal and still win a reputation as a bold truth-teller by lying in ways that reinforce a cherished mythological value.
Half Devil, Half Child: The World According to White Supremacy
White supremacy, as a mythology, defines the “us” on which sacrifice, collaboration and trust can be built.
America Before White Supremacy: Anglo-Saxonism in the North
Up to about 1760, the greatest fears of powerful English at home and in the colonies came from Europe’s powerful Catholic monarchies and those states’ overseas empires.
Cavalier Mythology in the Antebellum South
Powerful people in the Antebellum South feared landless whites almost as much as they feared their slaves.
How White Supremacy Took Shape: Violence, Money, Pseudoscience and Art
How did the proponents of a white supremacist mythology prevail in the struggle to define America’s future? What can we learn from their success?
White Violence Defined the Threat Landscape
In politics, who you admire may be less important than who you fear.