This paper proposes to read Poe`s "Ligeia" as the white writer`s profound self-criticism of White Supremacy, which can be translated into Texas Annexation and Mexican War in the nineteenth century, and Iraqi War in the twenty-first century. The essence of this writer`s criticism lies not so much in what cruel and unjust treatment white people provide for other less-privileged races as in what horrible and self-destroying malaise they breed inside their society and their minds. This perspective inspires us to see Ligeia, the seemingly exotic lady, as an American woman who suffers from the powerful, fatal influence of True Womanhood. In the nineteenth-century America, "American true women"-guardian angels of their home, community and country-primarily functioned as "hard" evidence of the white supremacy. With his overt, excessive admiration and worship for his wife, the narrator, Ligeia`s husband, covertly fulfills the male-centered urge to metamorphose a living woman into an angel, thereby embodies the imperialistic urge. What creates Ligeia`s "fearful" return from death is not her fierce, fearful will of revenge, but her husband`s tremendous, obsessive desire for an immortal, disembodied woman. His burning aspiration for the overwhelming triumph of spirituality over body spawns the delusional return of the deceased. It is he, not she, that is the incarnation of pure mentality. His success of deflecting the stigma of incarnation of pure mentality from himself to Ligeia, helped by his elusive consciousness and narration, might be another triumph he achieves; however, this hideous triumph only testifies to his deeply-embedded antagonism to life, and ultimately, the un-superiority of white supremacy.