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Tricia Rose: "Saving Government Jobs to Keep the Playing Field Level"

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Tricia Rose, Professor of African-American Cultural Politics at Brown University, argues that cutting government jobs would derail a half-century of efforts to create a more level playing field in the workplace.

Tricia Rose on America’s Growing Inequality

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Tricia Rose is Chair and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Professor Rose is most well-known for her ground-breaking book on the emergence of hip hop culture, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. She is also the co-editor of the youth music and youth culture collection: Microphone Fiends, and in 2003 published a rare history of black women's sexual life stories, called Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy. Rose's most recent book is The Hip-Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop-And Why It Matters.