Robeson Taj Frazier

Robeson Taj Frazier is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His research explores the experiences, intellectual history, and political and expressive cultures of the people of the African Diaspora in the United States and in 20th and 21st century China. He has produced a diverse portfolio of articles, book chapters, and cultural criticism on topics including race and ethnicity, social movements, the politics of travel and mobility, hip hop culture, urban history and struggles over public space, African American and Chinese art, and technology and new media. Frazier is the author of The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination (Duke University Press, 2014), and is currently completing another book, From Mao to Yao: Culture, Media, and Black Life in China.