Tricia Rose
Tricia Rose | |
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| Born | October 18, 1962 New York, New York, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Academic |
| Known for | Scholarly work on hip-hop and systemic racism. |
| Notable work | Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality And Intimacy, "The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-and Why It Matters", Way Outta No Way (www.wayouttanoway.com) |
| Awards | American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995 for "Black Noise" |
Tricia Rose (born October 18, 1962) is an American sociologist and author who pioneered scholarship on hip hop. Her studies mainly probe the intersectionality of pop music and gender. Now at Brown University, she is a professor of Africana Studies and the director of the Systemic Racism and Resilience Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study. In 2025, Rose launched Way Outta No Way, a dynamic web-based experience that blends a systems analysis of racism with compelling character-driven stories, supported by rigorous research. It demonstrates the power of Black life and culture to originate rich modes of human resistance and resilience. Rose also co-hosted a podcast, The Tight Rope,[1] with Cornel West.
Early life and education
[edit]Born in New York City, Rose lived in Harlem until 1970 when, at age seven, her family moved from their tenement building to Co-op City, a new and large complex of cooperative apartments in the northeast Bronx.[2]
Rose earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Yale University. Earning a PhD degree in American studies, partly under George Lipsitz,[3] from Brown University, Rose became the first person in the United States to write a doctoral dissertation on hip hop.[3]
Academia and authorship
[edit]For nine years, Rose taught Africana studies at New York University. In 2002, she moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz, and in July 2003 became chair of its American Studies department.[3]
Now at Brown University, Rose is the Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies. From July 2013,[4] to July 2024 she served as Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America[5] and now directs the Systemic Racism Project based at CSREA.
Rose's first book, Black Noise, emerging from her doctoral dissertation on hip hop, sparked academic recognition of this subculture's legacy.[2] The Village Voice placed it among the top 25 books of 1994, and the Before Columbus Foundation, in 1995, gave it an American Book Award.[6][7]
Books
[edit]- author, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Wesleyan University Press, 1994)
- author, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
- author, The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop—and Why It Matters (Basic Books, 2008)
- author, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—and How We Break Free (Basic Books, 2024)
- contributor and, with Andrew Ross, editor, Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994)
References
[edit]- ^ "Podcast by Tricia Rose, Cornel West explores African American arts, culture, history and politics". Brown University. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ a b "It's All About Love".
- ^ a b c Lee, Felicia R. (18 October 2003). "Class with the 'Ph.D. diva'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ Dionne, Evette (April 2013). "Hip-hop scholar Tricia Rose named director of Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America". Clutch Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-05-28. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "Biography".
- ^ Peterson, Latoya (May 5, 2016). "Turning the Tables: An Interview with author and scholar Tricia Rose". Bitch Magazine. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
- ^ "Tricia Rose". Boston College. Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.
External links
[edit]Selected videos
[edit]- How Structural Racism Works
- Hip Hop Futures - Talk at Cornell University about the current and future state of hip hop culture
- State of the Black Union 2009: Speaks about issues about the economy, hip-hop, and urban culture Part 1, Part 2
- Speaks about hip hop imagery, women and exploitation in an interview
- Creating Conversations on Justice, Tricia Rose at TEDxBrownUniversity
- 1962 births
- Brown University faculty
- American feminist writers
- Hip-hop people
- Living people
- African-American gender relations
- Black studies scholars
- Post–civil rights era in African-American history
- Yale University alumni
- American gender studies academics
- American Book Award winners
- People from Co-op City, Bronx
- People from Harlem
- Brown University alumni
- American women podcasters
- American podcasters