According to Omi and Winant, the term race can be defined as “a concept that signifies and symbolizes social conflicts and interests by referring to different types of human bodies”. From their framework of racial formation and their concept of racial projects, Omi and Winant argue that race is a matter of social structure and cultural representation that have been intertwined to shape the nature of racism. Racism has been present since the earliest events of English colonization of indigenous peoples and the racialization of African Americans through slavery, all phenomena through which the United States was shaped as a nation. Thus, this social structure of domination led European settlers and American revolutionaries to create racialized representations, policies and structures in order to oppress indigenous and black populations in their respective eras. The structure of a society is based on the concept of superiority and power. which both “allocates resources and creates boundaries” between factors such as class, race and gender (Mendes, Lecture, 09/28/11). This social structure can be seen in the context of Andrea Smith’s “Three Pillars of White Supremacy.” The first pillar of white supremacy is the logic of slavery and capitalism. In a capitalist system of slavery, “one's own person becomes a commodity to be sold on the labor market while the profits of one's labor are taken by someone else” (Smith 67). From this idea of ​​viewing slavery as a means of capitalism, black people were subjected to the bottom of the racial hierarchy and were treated only as property and a commodity used for the benefit of others. The second pillar involves the logic of genocide and colonialism. With the genocide, "non-indigenous peoples...... middle of paper...... were imposed on the Indians. Finally, Edward Countryman highlights the importance of the American Revolution and its impact on the construction of the United States as a nation. Racial formation can be defined as “the sociohistorical process by which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed” (Omi). and Winant 55). Indians and African Americans were subject to this racial categorization. From Andrea Smith's system of racial hierarchy to Edward Countryman's examination of projects of colonialism and slavery, racial oppression, which links both racialization and colonization, can be seen as the ideal on which the nation is built. The creation of racial representations, policies and social structures seek to weaken other races as inferior, while justifying the acts of cruelty and deception on which the nation is founded..