This module is a little different! Monday/Tuesday (2/28, 3/1) class will be very short because I am asking you to instead attend this public talk by Dr. Tricia Rose this Tuesday at 1:30pm at Hammer Theatre. Or you can watch via Zoom.

Your reading assignment is two short chapters from Dr. Rose's book, The Hip Hop Wars (chs. 5 & 7) and two short vids on black feminisms. Dr. Rose's talk (1:30 - 2:45) is also required whether in person or zoom.

We have seen some great progress of women of color in popular music and culture. This module, and this talk ask us to pay closer attention to what women of color think about the state of popular music and culture and the impact popular images have on their everyday lives. What are the possibilities for interracial exchange and political mobilization? "Listen Differently: Black Feminism, Music, and Popular Culture" prioritizes Black feminist thought and criticism in the Arts and Humanities by welcoming one of its most powerful practitioners—Dr. Tricia Rose—to the SJSU campus for a keynote address.

Dr. Tricia Rose is an internationally respected scholar of post civil rights era Black U.S. culture, popular music, social issues, gender and sexuality. Her first book _Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America_ laid the intellectual foundations for Hip Hop Studies. In 2008, Dr. Rose returned to hip hop to challenge the field she helped found, with: The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-Hop-And Why It Matters.

Following her keynote, Dr. Rose will be joined in conversation with Bay Area independent Hip Hop artist and journalist Rocky Rivera, who will also perform songs from her latest album _Rocky’s Revenge_.

1:30 pm Keynote with Dr. Tricia Rose
3 pm Dialogue with Rocky Rivera
4 pm Performance by Rocky Rivera and DJ Roza

Click here to register for tickets and/or zoomlink! - FREE but must have proof of vax & mask

Sponsored by Women, Gender, and Sexuality Center, Rock the School Bells, and FLOW Hip Hop Learning Community at De Anza College. At SJSU, the African American Studies Department, Ethnic Studies Collaborative, Sociology & Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Department, and Women, Gender & Sexuality Program.