Tag Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

“He was ‘us’.”

I have recently posted notes on prof. Borenstein’s piece, helpful as far as Russia is concerned but not much relevant to the Tsarnaev case. Now, moving on to Masha Gessen writing in The New Yorker: While Tsarnaev may look white,…

The wrong context

Prof. Eliot Borenstein’s piece in The Washington Post is a good primer on racial and ethnic stereotypes and prejudices in modern Russia. But is it relevant to the Tsarnaev case? As far as I know, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev only lived in…