There has been A LOT of media coverage on the possibility of xenophobic violence in S. Africa now that the World Cup is over. How are the news sources you are looking at covering this topic? What are they saying about it? How do they define xenophobia? Find an article. Describe the main points of your article. Try to begin to be critical of the medias coverage on this topic. Ask yourself the following questions as you read through the articles you find: 1) Who counts as a foreigner in these accounts? 2) What are the consequences of that distinction? 3) What does nationalism have to do with it? 4) What are the basic services being argued over? 5) What is the context of the violence? In other words, where does it take place and what are the material conditions of the areas? 6) Have you ever heard the term xenophobia used in other contexts? 7) Why dont they call discrimination in the United States against immigrants xenophobic? 8) How is the human and human rights being talked about in your various pieces, by the writer or by the folks she/he interviews? 9) If this violence was against others. African citizens, how might it be covered differently? 10) Why do you this story emerges as the counterpoint of the celebratory World Cup story? its literally being covered side-by-side in S. Africa on the one hand there is this international, global event and celebration and then folks fighting in the same area over basic services. How are these two related?
