White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds

White Fear has shaped our democracy and society from the beginning—and today, it’s more intense and visible than ever. To neutralize it, we must first understand it.

For two centuries, the deep-seated fear that many White people feel—of losing power, of losing economic standing, of losing a particular “way of life”—has been the driving force behind American politics and culture.

White Fear enabled the rise of Donald Trump. It’s behind the recent flood of restrictive voting laws disproporti...