According to Omi and Winant, the term race can be defined as "a concept that signifies and symbolizes conflicts and social interests by referring to different types of human bodies". From their framework of racial formation and the concept of racial projects, Omi and Winant argue that race is a matter of social structure and cultural representation that has been intertwined to shape the nature of racism. Racism has been seen since the events of the first English colonization of indigenous peoples and the racialization of African Americans through slavery, all in which the United States is shaped as a nation. Therefore, this social structure of domination caused European colonialists 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 “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 Andrea Smith's framework of the “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 person becomes a commodity that one must sell in the labor market while the profits of one's labor are taken by someone else” (Smith 67). From this idea of ​​seeing slavery as a means of capitalism, Black people were subjected to the lowest level of a racial hierarchy and were treated as nothing more than property and a commodity used for the benefit of someone else. The second pillar concerns the logic of genocide and colonialism. With the genocide, “non-native peoples were imposed on the Indians. Finally, Edward Countryman foregrounds the significance of the American Revolution and its impact on the formation of the United States as a nation. Racial formation can be defined as “the socio-historical process through which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, and destroyed” (Omi and Winant 55). Both Indians and African Americans were subject to this racial categorization. From Andrea Smith's racial hierarchical system to Edward Countryman's examination of the projects of colonialism and slavery, the oppression of races, linking both racialization and colonization, can be seen as the ideal upon which the nation is built. The creation of racial, political, and social structures seeks to undermine other races as inferior, while justifying the acts of cruelty and deception upon which the nation was founded..