Racism in the United States

Abstract

This chapter explores American exceptionalism, which is rooted in the Anglo-Saxon myth and Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism, and expands the concept to imply that those of Caucasian Nationality are a superior body politic. The goal is not to re-write America's story, but to rather use this scholarship to clarify and illuminate portions of America's history that society has ignored and to examine how we have arrived in a historical moment fueled by a sense of passive activism in which fighting for equality is trendy, but not necessarily transformative. American exceptionalism is tied to the notion of White and Black as an American creation, and the Black body as demonized to prove that American exceptionalism is rooted in the fabric of America's founding and still threads through Democracy today in the form of White supremacy.