Right man, right moment

• Autores: Chris Ip
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 29-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • He is the most celebrated journalist writing about race today, and yet Ta-Nehisi Coates' ideas are surprisingly unoriginal. He would be the first to say so. Consider, for example, "The Case for Reparations," Coates' 16,000-word cover story for The Atlantic, where he is a national correspondent. Published online in May 2014, it was a close look at housing discrimination, such as redlining, that was really about the need for America to take a brutally honest look in the mirror and acknowledge its deep racial divisions. The story broke a single-day traffic record for a magazine story on The Atlantic's Web site, and in its wake, Politico named him to its list of 50 thinkers changing American politics. Here, Ip discusses how this Atlantic writer looks to the past to confront contemporary racism.