White Supremacy And Whiteness

Furthermore, the concepts of white supremacy and whiteness, as described by Nishi (2015), have become part of the systems, structures and perspectives of what he calls a ‘United States of Whiteness.’ In which the ideology of whiteness supports white supremacy and the idea of the white race being superior to other racial or ethnicities. Whiteness is the invisibility of white people’s privilege in todays society and remains unspoken or unmentioned (Brooks, 2006). Moreover, the idea of cinethetic racism, which supports anti-Black stereotypes and white privilege, or white heteronormative ideologies, demonstrates the colourblind concept(Smith, 2013). Therefore, the extent to which popular media promotes unequal representations of race, influences