He has also been a winner of the North Star News Prize. He was named to the Frederick Douglass 200, as one of “200 living individuals who best embody the work and spirit of Douglass.” Recently he helped to write the Cultural New Deal alongside a number of artists and culture bearers. 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 to its YBCA 100 list of those “shaping the future of American culture.” Jeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature. Recently he helped to write the Cultural New Deal alongside a number of artists and culture bearers. Jeff co-founded CultureStr/ke (now the Center for Cultural Power), ColorLines, and the Webby-nominated May 19th Project. Jeff is featured in the PBS documentary series, Asian Americans. You can find a list of all his books in print here. His next project is a cultural biography of Bruce Lee called Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner/HarperCollins). It was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year, and the Washington Post declared it “the smartest book of the year.” In May 2019, he and director Bao Nguyen created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast. We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation (Picador), was published in September 2016 on Picador. He also edited the book, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop. The book won the Ray + Pat Browne Award for Best Work in Popular Culture and American Culture and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Books For A Better Life Award. It 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). Martin’s Press) was released on October 2014, to critical acclaim. Who We Be: The Colorization of America (St. A new revised Young Adult edition of the book-co-written with legendary hip-hop journalist Dave “Davey D” Cook-was published in 2021. Powell’s’ Books chose it as one of their 50 most important books of the past 50 years. Slate named it one of the best nonfiction books of the past 25 years. His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, won the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.īased on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.įorged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement.
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