Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Frazier, Robeson Taj
Communication
Contact Information
Associate Professor
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Office: Annenberg
Phone: (213) 740-6595
Email: rfrazier@usc.edu
Education:
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Professor Frazier is an Associate Professor of Communication and the Director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment. 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. Professor Frazier's interests include African American cultural and social history, critical cultural studies, decolonial/postcolonial studies, popular culture, urban history and culture, and the formation and conditions of globalization. His writing, research and teaching are committed to exposing students and the wider public to the value of a critical and historical approach to culture and communication, and cultivating greater awareness of the identities, subjectivities, and social and political contexts that encompass contemporary life in the United States and other places.
Publications
Books
- 2014. The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. Durham: Duke University Press.
Journal Articles
- 2017 "“Playing the Chinese card”: Globalization and the Aesthetic Strategies of Chinese Contemporary Artists." International Journal of Cultural Studies
- 2015 "Ethnic identity and racial contestation in cyberspace: Deconstructing the Chineseness of Lou Jing." China Information
- 2013 "Krumpin’ in North Hollywood: Public Moves in Private Spaces.” Boom: A Journal of California
- 2013 "Diplomacy as Black Cultural Traffic: Debates over Race in the Asian Travels of Adam Clayton Powell and Carl Rowan." The Journal of History and Cultures
- 2011 "Thunder in the East: China, Exiled Crusaders, and the Unevenness of Black Internationalism." American Quarterly
- 2011 "Afro-Asia and Cold War Black Radicalism." Socialism & Democracy
- 2011 "Gerald Horne’s Sketches of Black Internationalism & Transnationalism." The Journal of African American History
- 2011 "The Routes Less Traveled: The Great Transformation of James Boggs." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society
- 2009 "Black history most important in Obama era." The San Francisco Chronicle
- 2009 "Biggie Smalls lives on big screen." The San Francisco Chronicle
- 2006 "Of saints and rappers -- artist melds old and new." The San Francisco Chronicle
- 2006 "The Congress of African People: Baraka, Brother Mao, and the Year of ‘74." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society
Interviews and Guest Lectures
- Interview by PULLED TOGETHER
- Interview by Culture Matters
- USC ASE Commons Lecture Series
- USC US-China Institute 2013 Conference
Video:
Courses
- COMM 206: Communication and Culture
- COMM 360: The Rhetoric of Los Angeles
- COMM 450: Visual Culture & Communication
- COMM 458m: Race & Ethnicity in Entertainment & Arts
- COMM 619: Cultural Studies & Communication
- COMM 620: Black Popular Culture - Theory and Central Debates
Featured Articles
October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
RSVP link: https://forms.gle/1zer188RE9dCS6Ho6
Events
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author Mike Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.