Tricia Rose - Hip-Hop, Sexuality, and Black Culture in America
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Tricia Rose, Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University - Aired 1/19/07
When Tricia Rose wrote her dissertation on hip-hop over ten years ago, academics warned her that the topic might be too obscure, a passing blip in music history. They sure turned out to be wrong. But hip-hop today is a very different thing than the culture that was born twenty years ago in the Bronx, and Tricia Rose calls for a resurgence in Black courage to face these changes. She also asks for courage in another one of her projects: documenting stories of Black female sexuality — stories that are too often oversimplified and layered in mythology.
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Eugene Jarecki, Visiting Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University - Aired 5/9/06 In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower warned of “destroying from within that which you are trying to protect from without.” He was talking about a new development in American history, which he called “the military-industrial complex”. Ike himself was a five-star general, but as he left office he was extremely worried that the powerful interests of the war industry would destroy American democracy. Tonight on Not Your Classroom, documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki (who is a visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University) talks about Eisenhower’s warning, which is the focus of his recent film “Why We Fight”. “Why We Fight” won the 2005 Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. More about Jarecki