The Enemy Is White Supremacy

White supremacy is globalized into a system onto which unearned privileges associated with being white means irreversible damage and disempowerment for those identified as people of color (, p. 476). Scholarship in the United States continues to only focus on white supremacy within the U.S., thus neglecting the fact that white supremacy is global. When theorizing about white supremacy in other countries, one must not use the same lens or understanding of how white supremacy manifests. This chapter illuminates, using the cases of South Korea and China, that whiteness and white supremacy is much more than an issue of Black/white or U.S./western/European. The authors contribute positionalities that demonstrate lived experience as influential in shaping knowledge production in educational spaces, particularly as they relate to global white supremacy, and our personal interests in re-orienting how white supremacy is talked about in the context of South Korea and China. The construction of otherness and racial formation processes in South Korea and China are socio-historically situated, linking arms with global white supremacy, and this chapter concludes with implications for liberation through consciousness-raising and educational opportunities.