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...