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white racism  

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  • White racism refers to a system of oppression of African Americans and other people of color by the White Western world, specifically White Europeans and White Americans. Scholars have employed terms including institutional racism (or institutional discrimination), systemic racism, White supremacy, and global racist order to emphasize conceptually similar ideas. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; White Racism]

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