Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. His books include "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation;" "Who We Be: The Colorization of America" (St. Martin's Press), which was published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title, "Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America" (Picador); and "We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation" (Picador). He also edited the book, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop.

Jeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature and a winner of the North Star News Prize. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,” by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero, and by the Yerba Buena Center for The Arts as one of its 2016 YBCA 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.”

Jeff co-founded the Webby-nominated May 19th Project, CultureStr/ke — now known as the Center for Cultural Power — and ColorLines.