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: @nrookieCutting School The Segrenomics of American Education (2017)Related articlesAfrican American Homeschools as Racial ProtectionismThe Rise of Homeschooling Among Black FamiliesA revealing look at America’s most controversial charter school system. Success academyMark Zuckerberg wanted to help Newark schools. Newarkers say they weren’t heard.Historical contextBrown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)  Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women (1996)Related articleSoul Cap, designed for swimmers with natural Black hair, banned from Tokyo Olympics Soul Cap ShopBrown University, Department of Africana StudiesProf. Anani Dzidzienyo in the Brown Daily HeraldProf. Anani Dzidizenyo in the Brown Alumni Monthly