''''Tricia Rose''' (born 1962) is an American academic. She is Chancellor's Professor of [[Africana studies|Africana Studies]] and Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at [[Brown University]]. Through a sociological framework Rose has examined, taught, and written about U.S. black culture, especially the intersectionality of pop music, social issues, gender and sexuality. == Early life == Born in [[New York City]], Rose lived in a [[Harlem]] tenement until she was nine. In 1970 her family moved north to [[Co-op City]], a new housing development located in the [[The Bronx|Bronx]].<ref name=":1" /> Rose received her B.A in [[Sociology]] from [[Yale University]] and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Brown University, where she became the first person in the United States to write a doctoral dissertation on [[Hip hop|hip-hop]].<ref name=":3">{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Felicia R.|title=Class With the 'Ph.D. Diva'|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/18/books/class-with-the-phd-diva.html|accessdate=2 February 2017|work=The New York Times|date=18 October 2003}}</ref> [[George Lipsitz]] was one of her dissertation advisors.<ref name=":3" /> == Career == Rose taught for nine years in the [[Africana studies|Africana Studies]] program at [[New York University]], then moved in 2002 to [[University of California, Santa Cruz|University of California at Santa Cruz]]; in July 2003 she became chair of its [[American studies|American Studies]] department there.<ref name=":3" /> Rose is currently the Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University;<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.triciarose.com/biography.html|title=Biography|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> she became Director of the Center on July 1, 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/04/hip-hop-scholar-tricia-rose-named-director-of-brown-universitys-center-for-the-study-of-race-and-ethnicity-in-america/|title=Hip-Hop Scholar Tricia Rose Named Director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America|last=Dionne|first=Evette|date=April 2013|work=Clutch Magazine|newspaper=|language=en-US|access-date=2017-02-02|via=}}</ref> Rose has written three books, ''[[Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America]]'' (Wesleyan University Press, May 15, 1994), ''Longing to Tell: Black Women’s Stories of Sexuality and Intimacy'' (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, June 11, 2003), ''The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters'' (December 2, 2008), and co-wrote a fourth entitled ''Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture'' (June 23, 1994).<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://bitchmedia.org/article/turning-tables-interview-author-and-scholar-tricia-rose|title=Turning the Tables: An Interview with author and scholar Tricia Rose|last=Peterson|first=Latoya|date=May 5, 2016|work=Bitch Magazine|newspaper=|language=en|access-date=2017-02-02|via=}}</ref> ''Black Noise'', developed from her doctoral dissertation, is regarded as the first piece of published work to frame [[Hip hop music|hip hop']]<nowiki/>s legacy in such a way that granted it legitimacy among scholars; ultimately shaping the field of hip hop academic study.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2310/32|title=It's All About Love|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> ''Black Noise'', which made [[The Village Voice|''The Village Voice'']]'s top 25 books of 1994, was awarded an American Book Award<ref name=":4" /> from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/sociology/events/vss/rose.html|title=Tricia Rose|last=|first=|date=|website=Boston College|publisher=Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences|access-date=}}</ref> ''Longing to Tell: Black Women’s Stories of Sexuality and Intimacy'' is Rose's second book and focuses on black women's sexuality in America. Through testimonies which seek to dispel prevailing myths and provide insights, this oral narrative project illustrates the complexities of exploring black female sexuality within contemporary culture.<ref name=":2" /> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.triciarose.com/ Official website of Tricia Rose] ===Selected videos=== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8db7ZGGBk 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K4ypv9V7vU Part 1], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY1gN5hJDTA Part 2] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7gUu4DYZO0 Speaks about hip hop imagery, women and exploitation in an interview] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmoiH1PkHGQ Creating Conversations on Justice], Tricia Rose at TEDxBrownUniversity {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rose, Tricia}} [[Category:1961 births]] [[Category:Brown University faculty]] [[Category:Feminist writers]] [[Category:Hip hop people]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:African-American gender relations]] [[Category:African-American studies scholars]] [[Category:African-American history]] [[Category:Yale University alumni]] [[Category:Popular culture studies]] [[Category:Gender studies academics]]'