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The Context of White Supremacy Welcomes Dr. Nicholas Caverly. Classified as a White Man, Caverly is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He’s an “anthropologist of technology interested in the intersections of racism, space, and justice,” and his research uses “ethnographic and archival methods to investigate political ecologies of racial capital—especially white power and anti-blackness.” We’ll review his December 2025 publication, Demolishing Detroit: How Structural Racism Endures. The text examines the many manifestations of the System of White Supremacy in Detroit. Gus was especially interested in the number of years this White Man spent peeping on black people. This included asking intimate details about their lives, finances, and even criminal convictions. Dr. Caverly takes excavation training and asbestos removal classes alongside unemployed and incarcerated black Detroiters who are desperate for employment or forced to remove toxic waste as a condition of