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There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.
Jess Row
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Jess Row
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: October 25
Short Story Writer
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It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.
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Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.
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I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.
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Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.
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Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.
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For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.
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Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.
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The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning of gangster rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music.
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The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.
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