Posts Tagged ‘race’
The Rwandan catwalk
The eye of the beholder, it turns out, isn’t the easiest of standards. The beholder can be so…complicated. I found myself in Butare last Friday night, home of the National University of Rwanda, which was home, on that night, to Miss Campus–Rwanda’s version of Miss America. Pretty literally: the winner of the contest, who is [...]
Decoding electoral news, or, I’m from a state of racists
Here are several “dog bites man” stories, which is journalism code for “stuff that’s so obvious it doesn’t merit a story.” Except this is primary season, and so the simple fact that there are simple facts in the world makes them important enough to put in the paper, provided they can be anchored on the [...]
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