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Iconoclastic Polymath. Nashville Country Music Reporter, @Tennessean. mdowling@tennessean.com
Sep 22, 2018 21 tweets 7 min read
Here is what I hope will be -- from my perspective -- a definitive, substantive, and conclusive thread regarding all things authenticity, presentation, and, as well, why you would have a white woman curate hip-hop at the @NMAAHC. Foremost, it's an issue of numbers. 2004 @smithsonian survey data notes that 78% of Smithsonian visitors are adults, 48% representing the SE and Midwestern US, with 74% Caucasian representation. 7% black. si.edu/content/opanda…