28 Days of Black at Brown: Day 20: Tricia Rose M.A. ’87, Ph.D. ’93, Director of the CSREA

Throughout the month of February, Brown Athletics will celebrate Black History Month through the "28 Days of Black at Brown" series. Each day during the month, the Bears will recognize African Americans who have made an impact on the university community and beyond.

28 Days of Black at Brown

Tricia Rose M.A. '87, Ph.D. '93, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)

The Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies, Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Tricia Rose M.A. '87, Ph.D. '93 specializes in 20^th-century African-American culture and politics, social thought, popular culture, and gender issues. She is the author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994), Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy (2003), and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters (2008). Black Noise won several awards including an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. She has been awarded such prestigious fellowships as Princeton University's Afro-American Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship and the American Association of University Women Fellowship.

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28 Days of Black at Brown: Day 20: Tricia Rose M.A. ’87, Ph.D. ’93, Director of the CSREA

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