Special report | White Americans
White Americans are beginning to realise that they too belong to a race
Anxiety about their country’s demography is fuelling the politics of racial backlash
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This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “The souls of white folk”
From the May 22nd 2021 edition
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