How Street Culture Shaped Asian-American Identity

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1. Such a great article!

The part that really stood out :

Double consciousness is about reconciliation. Du Bois writes that in merging the “two-ness” of one’s self, there’s a wish that neither half is lost, but the end result is “better and truer.” For Kyle Ng, that led him on a path to discover artists like Barry McGee and Geoff McFetridge, labels like Mike Park’s Asian Man Records, and Japanese noise rock groups like Melt-Banana. It revealed a world of outsider art that continues to shape him and his brand today.