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Robeson Taj Frazier is an associate professor of communication at USC and director of IDEA (the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg). He is the author of two books, a multimedia/film producer, and has published articles and essays about U.S. Black social movements and political ideologies, globalization, fine arts, popular culture, and U.S.-China relations and cultural contact. Frazier's first book, The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination (Duke University Press, 2014), analyzes the political and cultural ties cultivated between China and U.S. Black political movements during the Cold War. His second project, It's Yours: A Story About Hip Hop and the Internet (2019), is a documentary film that examines how hip-hop artists' and the broader global hip-hop community's use of the Internet and digital technologies has revolutionized the music industry and global youth culture.