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Tricia Rose

American sociologist and author (born 1962)

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American sociologist and author (born 1962)

Field	Value
name	Tricia Rose
image	Tricia Rose.jpg
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birth_place	New York, New York, U.S.
death_date
education
occupation	Academic
known_for	Scholarly work on hip-hop and systemic racism.
notable_works	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, with Cornel West.

Early life and education

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.

Rose earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Yale University. Earning a PhD degree in American studies, partly under George Lipsitz, from Brown University, Rose became the first person in the United States to write a doctoral dissertation on hip hop.

Academia and authorship

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.

Now at Brown University, Rose is the Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies. From July 2013, to July 2024 she served as Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America 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. 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.

Books

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

(12 June 2020). "Podcast by Tricia Rose, Cornel West explores African American arts, culture, history and politics".
(18 October 2003). "Class with the 'Ph.D. diva'". The New York Times.
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.
"Biography".
"It's All About Love".
Peterson, Latoya. (May 5, 2016). "Turning the Tables: An Interview with author and scholar Tricia Rose". Bitch Magazine.
"Tricia Rose". Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

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