Tricia lectures, engages in conversation and presents seminars and workshops to general and scholarly audiences on a wide range of issues relating to race in America, mass media, structural inequality, popular culture, gender and sexuality and art and social justice.
She has been featured on PBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR and other national and local media outlets.
“We're consuming all of these hyper stereotypical images of black people for great profit, but we don't want to talk about any of the social conditions and circumstances around it. We're not interested. That's a very troubling concept… We live in a market economy that we're not changing anytime soon, but we have to stop letting the market economy live in us.” - Tricia Rose
The most visible and widely-consumed hip hop sets forth a troubled vision of ghetto street life that defines young, at-risk black men and women to each other and also to a large white audience (seventy percent of hip hop consumers are white). Professor Rose voices a call for revitalization of the progressive, creative heart of hip hop, which has increasingly become defined by one thin slice of a varied, complex genre.
“In the media and in the public realm a vociferous and sustained battle against respectability politics may have obscured the powerful and problematic influences of mass mediated representations, which for the most part rely on controlling images of black women's sexuality…”
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