Black supremacy or
black supremacism is an ideology which is centered upon the belief or promotes the belief that
black people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds and therefore, black people should politically, economically, and socially dominate non-black people. Like other
racial supremacist ideologies and related social movements, it is based on a notion of biological
race. In that sense, all forms of racial supremacy are
essentialist ideologies that conflict with
constructionist views of race. Despite these commonalities, according to most scholars of race, variants of racial supremacy differ significantly because, historically, they have wielded structural power and shaped popular and political discourses to different degrees. For example, some forms of racial supremacy have remained ideologies shared by a small faction and others have been structurally implemented on a broad social scale (see
social structure and
racism) by a majority.