Noliwe Rooks on Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Professor, Dr, and Chair Noliwe Rooks is an interdisciplinary scholar, She is the chair of and a professor in Africana Studies at Brown University and the founding director of the Segrenomics Lab at the school. Her work explores how race and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history and political life in the United States. She works on the cultural and racial implications of beauty, fashion and adornment; race, capitalism and education, and the urban politics of food and cannabis production. Follow on Twitter: @nrookie

Cutting School The Segrenomics of American Education (2017)

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Historical context

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
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Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women (1996)

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