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NYC: Asian and absent in the arts

In an increasingly diverse American society, Asian American actors are battling for wider acceptance. In the hothouse of competition on the New York stage, they find it harder and harder to find roles that white and even African American actors gain with more regularity. One actor said it plain: “There's this real subconscious perception in society that Asian-Americans are not actually American.” Lucas Kavner of The Huffington Post reports. See Stage

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