Tricia Rose
Born	(1962-10-18)October 18, 1962 (age 63) New York, New York, U.S.
Education	Yale University (BA) Brown University (PhD)
Occupation	Academic
Known for	Scholarly work on hip-hop and systemic racism.
Notable work	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 Americansociologist and author who pioneered scholarship onhip hop. Her studies mainly probe theintersectionality of pop music and gender. Now atBrown University, she is a professor ofAfricana Studies and the director of theSystemic Racism and Resilience Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study. In 2025, Rose launchedWay 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,^[1] withCornel West.

Born inNew York City, Rose lived inHarlem until 1970 when, at age seven, her family moved from theirtenement building toCo-op City, a new and large complex ofcooperative apartments in the northeastBronx.^[2]

Rose earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology fromYale University. Earning a PhD degree in American studies, partly underGeorge Lipsitz,^[3] fromBrown University, Rose became the first person in the United States to write a doctoral dissertation on hip hop.^[3]

For nine years, Rose taughtAfricana studies atNew York University. In 2002, she moved to theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, and in July 2003 became chair of itsAmerican Studies department.^[3]

Now atBrown University, Rose is the Chancellor's Professor of Africana Studies. From July 2013,^[4] to July 2024 she served as Director of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity in America^[5] 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.^[2]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.^[6][7]

• 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)

• Official website of Tricia Rose

• How Structural Racism Works
• 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 culturePart 1,Part 2
• Speaks about hip hop imagery, women and exploitation in an interview
• Creating Conversations on Justice, Tricia Rose at TEDxBrownUniversity

• 1962 births
• Brown University faculty
• American feminist writers
• Hip-hop people
• Living people
• African-American gender relations
• Black studies scholars
• Post–civil rights era in African-American history
• Yale University alumni
• American gender studies academics
• American Book Award winners
• People from Co-op City, Bronx
• People from Harlem
• Brown University alumni
• American women podcasters
• American podcasters

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