The Reconstruction of American Journalism in the Age of Culture War
21 min readAug 5, 2019
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Farai Chideya
The coverage of race and xenophobia in American life and politics has often lacked adequate pattern recognition and historical context. I spoke about this in a speech in March, posted below as text and video; and am posting it now, spurred by the recent mass killing in El Paso, Texas. The gunman’s manifesto read that “this attack is a…