Early on in “Yellow Rose,” a drama about a Filipina teenager named Rosario “Rose” Garcia, Rose (Eva Noblezada) is browsing the jukebox at the Broken Spoke, an old-school Texan country music bar. An older, white man approaches her and points out something about the Willie Nelson song she’s eyeing. Rose, a hard-core country fan herself, promptly schools him on his trivia.

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“That’s impressive,” the man answers.

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There are few things more stereotypically “American” than country music. To the average person, if you think of the country music legends of the past 50 years, many will just imagine the likes of Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and Patsy Cline. Though there are plenty of different men and women that have made their mark on the genre, there is one thing that many of the country music icons have in common—they’re white.

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