ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ideologies of white supremacy, white privilege/white fragility, the negative portrayal of Blacks, and how these factors impact the treatment of Blacks in the criminal justice system. Ideological factors contribute to the brutality and death of people of color by police officers. These ideological factors (whiteness, white supremacy, white privilege, and white fragility) are implicit factors that lay beneath the surface. When whiteness is seen as the norm and the standard, it creates a monocultural lens that denounces Black culture and the experience of people of color. This chapter begins with defining the ideologies of monoculturalism (whiteness, white supremacy, and white privilege/white fragility) and how these ideologies have created a monoculturalism lens and frame of references that dominate systems such as the legal and criminal justice system that oppresses Black people. Second, the chapter further explores the negative portrayal of Black people and how this negative portrayal has led to the unjust and unfair treatment of Blacks in the criminal justice system.
