Rap on Race with Rice is a participatory performance that opens a discourse about race and racism as participants perform the action of splitting rice. The work is inspired by the 7.5-hour conversation between cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead and writer and intellectual James Baldwin, entitled A Rap on Race, recorded in 1970. The idea behind the performance is to engage people in conversation in public & semi-public spaces as a simple but political gesture that creates much-needed dialogues.