During a semester abroad in Nanjing, China, Tiara Wilson, then an undergraduate, became fascinated with the proliferation of hip hop in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. She found the topic so compelling that she made it the focus of her studies when she was accepted to graduate school at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in 2019.
“I looked at hip hop as a way to look at different iterations of identity, and then I connected that to how we understand people and how we see race and identity,” says Wilson, who graduated in 2021 with a master’s degree in East Asian Area Studies.
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