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A talk by Dr. Tricia Rose on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 in the Gordy Room at the Wardlaw Building located at 177 North Avenue. There will be a reception at 3:30pm and the lecture will begin at 4:00pm. Dr. Rose's talk will consider the ways that colorblind story framing invisibly impedes our understanding of racial inequality and will identify storytelling approaches that lays the groundwork for a just and inclusive society.
Dr Rose is an internationally respected scholar of post civil rights era black U.S. culture, popular music, social issues, gender and sexuality. She has been awarded for her teaching and has received several scholarly fellowships including ones from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the American Association of University Women. She is most well known for her groundbreaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture. Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America is considered foundational text for the study of hip hop, one that has defined what is now an entire field of study. Black Noise won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995, was voted among the top 25 books of 1995 by the Village Voice and in 1999 was listed by Black Issues in Higher Education as one of its "Top Books of the Twentieth Century."
