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Activities for Lafayette’s celebration of Black History Month conclude this week with an African Market and two events featuring Tricia Rose, professor of American studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz and author of Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary Society.
An African Market will be held 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday in the Farinon Center Atrium, featuring music, food, and vendors of books, clothing, and jewelry celebratory of the customs and traditions within the African Diaspora. The event is sponsored by the Africana studies department, Association of Black Collegians, Lafayette African and Caribbean Students Association, and Office of Intercultural Development.
Rose will attend a luncheon at the David A. Portlock Black Cultural Center 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, then give the keynote address for Black History Month, titled “Black Cultural Futures: Struggles over Representation, Identity, and Community in Popular Culture,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Oechsle Hall auditorium. A book signing will follow.
Rose specializes in 20th century African-American culture and politics, social thought, popular culture, and gender issues. Her keynote lecture will explore racism and sexism in popular culture, the role that the American media plays in shaping the perceptions of blacks, and the politics of black misrepresentation in the mass media.
She earned her B.A. in sociology from Yale University in 1984 and completed her Ph.D. in American civilization from Brown University in 1993. Rose specializes in 20th century African-American culture and politics, social thought, popular culture, and gender issues.
Black Noise, which made the Village Voice’s list of top 25 books of 1994, was awarded an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1995. Rose’s oral narrative project on black women’s sexuality in America, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy, is the first oral history of black women’s sexual testimonies. She is co-editor, with Andrew Ross, of Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture (Routledge, 1994).
Rose has given lectures and presented papers abroad and at schools and other venues in the U.S. such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Wesleyan, Middlebury, the University of California at San Diego, Irvine, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles, Michigan, the University of Texas at Austin, Spelman, Morehouse, The Whitney Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum. Rose has also been featured as an expert commentator on NPR and other national radio outlets, on television, and in articles appearing in magazines and newspapers such as Time, Essence, The New York Times and The Village Voice. Her essays on American culture and politics, black popular music and sexism, and black women’s issues have appeared in several edited book collections and wide range of journals and magazines, including The Village Voice, Essence, Vibe Magazine, Artforum, Bookforum, Women’s Review of Books, and Boston Book Review.
Her visit is sponsored by the Office of Intercultural Development. For more information, call x5819.