Roski Talks: Taj Frazier

Professor FRAZIER IS A CULTURAL HISTORIAN WHO EXPLORES THE ARTS, political and expressive cultures of the people of the African Diaspora in the United States and elsewhere. His research examines histories and current-day dynamics of race and gender, cultural traffic and contact, urban culture and life, and popular culture. As a Black studies and communication scholar trained in the humanities, his interdisciplinary scholarship, pedagogical mission, and intellectual purpose is aimed at facilitating for different communities: 1) the value of a critical approach to culture, communication, and the historical, ontological, and material dimensions of power, resistance, and subjectivity; 2) old and new creative modes of cultural and political intervention. He is the author of _The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination_, co-producer of the documentary film _The World Is Yours_, was on the Scholarship Steering Committee for the audio-visual and traveling art platform _Question Bridge: Black Males_, and is on the editorial boards for the _Journal of Race and Policy_ and _Communication, Culture, & Critique_. FRAZIER'S WRITINGS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN BOOKS INCLUDING "The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction," "African Americans in Global Affairs", and _Migrating the Black Body: Visual Culture and the African Diaspora _(forthcoming); as well as in academic journals and periodicals such as American Quarterly, China Information, _Boom: A Journal of California, Socialism & Democracy, The Journal of History and Cultures, The Journal of African American History, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society, The San Francisco Chronicle_, and _The Black Arts Quarterly. _