UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department proudly present Tricia Rose—an internationally respected speaker, award-winning writer, and leading scholar of African American culture, racial inequality, and gender—for a conversation about her book Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives – And How We Break Free.

On May 2nd, UCSC Feminist Studies and the UCSC Music Department will also host Lifting As We Rhyme: 50 Years of Black Feminist Sonic World Making – a roundtable discussion with Tricia Rose, UCSC Humanities Professor Gina Dent, and UCSC Music Professor and hip hop artist akua naru. More information available here.

Tricia Rose is the Director of the Systemic Racism Project at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study, and Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. 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 in 2025).