Maria Dyveke Styve interviews Jemima Pierre on "Anthropology of White Supremacy"

Maria Dyveke Styve (MW Fellow) interviews Jemima Pierre (UCLA)
"Anthropology of White Supremacy" is part of the Interview Series of the multidisciplinary research workshop "Envisioning the Global South(s)" organised by MW Fellows (Roberta Biasillo, Matteo Capasso, Wanshu Cong, Lillian Frost, Maria Gago, Maria Dyveke Styve)
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To speak of global white supremacy is to point to the racial dimensions of an international power system that includes an ideology of white (broadly defined) racial superiority and its related sets of practices. However, it remains difficult to operationalize the historical reality of white supremacy within anthropological theory and practice. For even as mainstream anthropology has acknowledged the significance of race, it has yet to thoroughly engage the role of white supremacy, especially global white supremacy, as part and parcel of the baseline understanding and functioning of the modern world.
How can we as anthropologists speak of neoliberalism, for example, without keeping in constant view the context of white privilege and power that structure both global capitalism and (post/neo) colonialism?
(Extract from Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús and Jemima Pierre's Introduction to Special Section on the Anthropology of White Supremacy, American Anthropologist, Vol 122, No. 1.)