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White Us citizens have always been comfortable in the assumption they are the cultural norm. Given that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what this means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that reflects the country's diverse cultural simple fact, a future in which they will no longer constitute the majority of the inhabitants, and with a dark-colored leader in the White House, whites are growing restless. This nervousness has helped to produce the Tea Party movement, with its call to "take our country back." Through a racialized nostalgia for a mythological former, the proper is enlisting fearful whites into its marketing campaign for reactionary interpersonal and economic procedures. In urgent response, Tim Wise has penned his most pointed and provocative work as of yet. Employing the form of direct personal address, he details a finger at whites' race-based self-delusion, explaining how such an agenda will only do injury to the country's people, including most whites. In no uncertain conditions, he argues that the expect survival of American democracy is based on the embrace of your multicultural former, present and future.
