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'Drag Race' has become a staple of modern television for the way it skewers expectations and attitudes about gender, much as a show like 'black-ish' works to challenge stereotypes about black families in America.

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Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

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Nonviolent, visual protests have a long history of forming images that can quickly go viral and set a powerful tone for a moment.

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The American understanding of China is filtered through years of politics; we rarely see the culture on its own terms.

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In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.

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The most moving parts of 'Real American' come when Lythcott-Haims stares unflinchingly at her own self-loathing, writing about the racist encounters of her childhood that convinced her from a young age that there was something inherently wrong with being black.

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Generally speaking, the business of music streaming is treacherous at best: Consumers don't seem to want to pay big money for access to digital music services, so companies must keep the fees low.

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Spotify, Tidal, and even YouTube, to a degree, are vast and rich troves of music, but they primarily function as search engines organized by algorithms. You typically have to know what you're looking for in order to find it.

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As digital culture becomes more tied to the success of the platforms where it flourishes, there is always a risk of it disappearing forever.

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SoundCloud took a community-first approach to building its business, prioritizing finding artists to post on its service over making deals with music labels to license their music, the approach taken by Spotify.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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