The Scoop on Tricia Rose...

Tricia Rose is quite the advocate of hip hop culture and of the African-American race as a whole. Her literature seems to be mainly focused on one of the two topics, or even both of the topics combined. She has written three books, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America, Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture, and Longing To Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy. Along with these books, she has also written numerous articles that have appeared in black culture magazines. Her credibility is well-developed due to her extensive experience with writing about the African-American race and culture.


To find this information about Tricia Rose I searched the internet for her background information. I first typed, in the search engine, books by Tricia Rose. I wanted to know what other books or different types of literature that she had published besides the one book of hers that I am familiar with. When the results showed up, I went through all the books that were listed as being written by Tricia Rose and read the brief description of them. By reading the description of her other books, I was able to see a pattern in her writing style and the types of things she
wrote about. Next, I just typed her name into the search engine. I wanted to see what kind of other information would show up about her, regarding other things she had done in her life. Among the results from this search was her biographical information. This included the degrees she had obtained and a brief history of her works of literature and how she got her start.

An advantage of looking in the places that I searched is that it was convenient and it didn't take much time for the results to appear. A disadvantage was that the results that I found were not written by Tricia Rose herself, so there is no way to tell what information I found is actually true.