Black supremacy

Glenda Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 (Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 71 Laura Doyle, Bordering on the Body The Racial Matrix of Modern Fiction and Culture (New York Oxford, 1994), pp. 27,10-34 Joel Williamson, A Rage for Order Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation (New York Oxford, 1986). 

Multiracialism suffers from this conundrum wanting to condemn identification with racial blackness as the source of social crisis, seeking to locate a politicized blackness as the barrier to a postracial future, while affirming mixed-ness in ways that reinforce and expand notions of racial purity and the concomitant hierarchies of value that underwrite white supremacy and antiblackness. This is why the reclamation of whiteness, or more precisely, nonblackness, is elevated to the status of a virtue, a sign not only of mental and emotional well-being (openness to diversity, within and without) but also of moral rectitude (tolerance for difference and commitment to reconciliation) (Daniel 2002). It is more than contradictory that this... 

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