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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. |
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Notable work
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About ... And Intimacy, "The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-and Why It Matters" |
| 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. She was one of the first people to study hip hop music seriously in universities. Her studies often explore how popular music and gender roles connect.
Currently, she is a professor of Africana studies at Brown University. She also directs the Systemic Racism Project. This project is part of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Tricia Rose also co-hosts a podcast called The Tight Rope with Cornel West.
Early Life and Education
Tricia Rose was born in New York City. She lived in Harlem until she was seven years old. In 1970, her family moved from their apartment building. They moved to Co-op City in the northeast Bronx. Co-op City is a large complex of cooperative apartments.
Rose earned her first degree, a Bachelor of Arts, from Yale University. She studied sociology there. Later, she earned a PhD degree in American studies from Brown University. Her PhD work was partly guided by George Lipsitz. Tricia Rose was the first person in the United States to write a doctoral paper about hip hop.
Her Work in Universities and Books
Tricia Rose taught Africana studies at New York University for nine years. In 2002, she moved to the University of California, Santa Cruz. In July 2003, she became the head of its American Studies department.
Now, she is a Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. From 2013 to 2024, she was the Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. She now leads the Systemic Racism Project there.
Rose's first book is called Black Noise. It came from her PhD paper on hip hop. This book helped people in universities recognize hip hop's importance. The Village Voice newspaper named it one of the top 25 books of 1994. In 1995, it won an American Book Award.
Books by Tricia Rose
- author, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Wesleyan University Press, 1994)
- author, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About ... 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)
