Jeff Chang

Jeff Chang, a 2008 USA Ford Fellow in Literature, is the author of Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. He is at work on Who We Be: The Colorization of America, on the cultural implications of the new American majority.

Currently

  • The Creativity Stimulus

    April 15, 2009

    Creating jobs for artists--good for the economy and even better for the imagination.

2007

  • News From Nowhere

    November 1, 2007

    Hip-hop star M.I.A. broadcasts the sound of those with one foot in the First World and the other in the global South.

  • Hip-Hop's E-Z Scapegoats

    May 8, 2007

    There's a big difference between the misogynous hip-hop produced by big media and the hip-hop that moves a generation.

  • Moving On Up

    January 4, 2007

    Jay-Z, self-styled savior of hip-hop, is the face of the new establishment.

2002

  • 'Stakes Is High'

    December 23, 2002

    As the central marker of urban youth of color authenticity, rap music has become the key to the niching of youth culture.

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» Altercation

Slacker Thursday | Dying laptops, recapping the election, the Dow, and the Yankees with the World Series.
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