Article Beyond white privilege: Geographies of white supremacy and settler colonialism Anne Bonds University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA Joshua Inwood University of Tennessee, USA Abstract This paper builds from scholarship on whiteness and white privilege to argue for an expanded focus that includes settler colonialism and white supremacy. We argue that engaging with white supremacy and settler colonialism reveals the enduring social, economic, and political impacts of white supremacy as a materially grounded set of practices. We situate white supremacy not as an artifact of history or as an extreme position, but rather as the foundation for the continuous unfolding of practices of race and racism within settler states. We illustrate this framework through a recent example of a land dispute in the American West. Keywords indigenous geographies, land disputes, racism, settler colonialism, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness I Introduction Drawing from the fields of critical race and eth- nic studies and postcolonial theory, we develop two interconnected argument for the study of race, racism, and privilege. First, we argue for the value and need of developing geographi- cally sensitive theorizations of white supremacy as the animating logic of racism and privilege. Second, we contend that the concept of settler colonialism, as an ongoing mode of empire, has much to offer studies of race and racialized geo- graphies, particularly in illustrating the material conditions of white supremacy. Both conceptual tools complicate common sense temporalities and spatialities: neither white supremacy nor settler colonialism can be relegated to historical contexts. Rather, both inform past, present, and future formations of race. In expanding this the- oretical frame, we engage with recent debates in geography about the materialities of race (Mah- tani, 2014; Slocum and Saldana, 2013; Pulido, 2015) and develop a historicized, rather than historical (Schein, 2011), account that locates white supremacy and colonization in the ‘right Corresponding author: Anne Bonds, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA. Email: bondsa@uwm.edu Progress in Human Geography 2016, Vol. 40(6) 715–733 ª The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0309132515613166 phg.sagepub.com at PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV on November 10, 2016 phg.sagepub.com Downloaded from