Tag: Xenophobia

The Long History of Xenophobia in the United States

In a previous article, I mentioned the implied meaning of the term “expat” — a privileged attitude held by people who emigrated to a new country maintaining separation from the inhabitants previously there. There’s a whiff of that attitude in the anti-immigrant sentiment...

Minting Xenophobia: What We Can Learn From the AP’s NFT Error

In 2015, photographer Massimo Sestini documented refugees leaving their homelands for safety as they crossed the Mediterranean, hoping to seek asylum in Europe. Sestini’s photographs were well praised and won several awards, but Sestini, as well as many others, recognized that the images do no...