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This Week In Race: Art Angst, A Chess Champ, Ramadan Feasts

American Muslim shop owner waits for customers as he sells different types of lanterns for sale as part of preparations for the Holy Month of Ramadan in Bayridge neighborhood in Brooklyn borough of New York, United States on May 24, 2017. / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images

Can white artists understand the racial traumas people of color undergo in America enough to apply them to their work? Creating art about cultures other than your own — especially of populations that have been marginalized or oppressed — has once again come under fire.

The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis decided to that proved particularly offensive and

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