Our goal in understanding white supremacy should be theory building, viewed as instrumental in providing explanation and prediction as a foundation for activism. As humanists and social scientists, and more particularly as anthropologists and linguistic anthropologists, we should take to heart not only anthropology’s mandate to be holistic, comparative, and historical but also the tradition of anthropological theorizing. Lived experience is the substance of the, perhaps temporarily, ineffable structure of feeling, shaping, and structuring what we should desperately want theory to account for, including our pain, resentments, hatreds, longing, and joy—even the air we breathe and the rivers flowing among the United States, which are shaped by—fused with—white supremacy and antiblackness. White supremacy seeks to be totalitarian, even as it is contained by and/or co-constructed by not only ancillary systems such as gender-, class-, and sexuality-based ones but also larger systems such as capitalism, purposeful violence, and the state’s quest for hegemony. In this writing’s search for a deeper and broader comprehension of white supremacy, discussions are presented on underdiscussed themes in white supremacy, such as the “whitening” power of language, and additionally two key issues: (1) the change currently underway in the United States'white-supremacist racial system from a race-primary system toward a skin-color primary system, accompanying a likely change in the basic principle for defining whiteness and (2) the necessity to understand that white supremacy is a key element in the degradation and exploitation of, not only labor of color but also white labor—to a lesser extent, and the looming possibility going forward of the United States’ decline domestically and internationally.

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白人至上与反黑：理论与生活经验

我们理解白人至上的目标应该是理论构建，被视为提供解释和预测的工具，作为激进主义的基础。作为人文主义者和社会科学家，尤其是作为人类学家和语言人类学家，我们不仅应该牢记人类学的整体性、比较性和历史性使命，而且还应该牢记人类学理论化的传统。生活经验是感觉、塑造和构建我们迫切希望理论解释的感觉、塑造和构建的结构的实质，包括我们的痛苦、怨恨、仇恨、渴望和喜悦——甚至我们呼吸的空气和流经美国的河流，由白人至上主义和反黑主义塑造——融合。白人至上寻求极权主义，即使它不仅被诸如基于性别、阶级和性的系统等辅助系统所包含和/或共同构建，而且还被诸如资本主义、有目的的暴力和国家对霸权的追求等更大的系统所包含和/或共同构建。在本文寻求对白人至上的更深入和更广泛理解的过程中，讨论了白人至上中未被充分讨论的主题，例如语言的“白化”力量，以及另外两个关键问题：（1）美国目前正在发生的变化各州的白人至上主义种族制度从种族主要制度转向肤色主要制度，伴随着定义白人的基本原则可能发生变化，以及 (2) 有必要了解白人至上是退化的关键因素和利用，