 Black and indigenous anarchisms provide a radical critique, which holds that the global history of genocide, slavery, colonization, and exploitation rest upon the assumption of white supremacy. White supremacy is thus understood, from this point of view, as a presupposition of statism, centralization, hierarchy, and authority. The anarchist critique of white supremacy is thus linked to a critique of social and political systems that evolved out of the history of slavery and native genocide to include apartheid, inequality, caste/racial hierarchies, and other forms of structural racism. Some defenders of Black anarchism go so far as to suggest that when “Blackness” is defined in opposition to structures of white supremacy, there is a kind of anarchism woven into the concept. Anderson and Samudzi write, 