Tricia Rose

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.[1]

Rose earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Yale University. Earning a PhD degree in American studies, partly under George Lipsitz,[2] from Brown University, Rose became the first person in the United States to write a doctoral dissertation on hip hop.[2]

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.[2]

Now at Brown University, Rose is the Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies. And since July 2013,[3] she has been, at Brown, the director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.[4]

Rose's first book, Black Noise, emerging from her doctoral dissertation on hip hop, sparked academic recognition of this subculture's legacy.[1] 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.[5][6]

• 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)
• contributor and, with Andrew Ross, editor, Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994)

• Official website of Tricia Rose