John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study

Tricia Rose is the Director of the Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study, Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies, and Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives at Brown University. She specializes in the political and social dimensions of African-American life and expressive culture, and contemporary forms of systemic racism.

Rose 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). 

Her most recent book, Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives—And How We Break Free (2024), is part of a larger public engagement and learning project featuring the How Systemic Racism Works interactive website (release date March 2025).  

www.triciarose.com