Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.Praise had bled my lines white of any more anger,and snow had inducted me into white fellowships,

The images of “white” lines, snow, and “white fellowships” point to the speaker’s relationship with whiteness and racial identity. The excerpt therefore concerns race, not age, gender, or location. The correct choice is race.

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