Jeff has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature. He is currently at work on a biography of Bruce Lee (Little, Brown). His next book, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation (Picador) will be out in September 2016. Who We Be: The Colorization of America, was released on St.
He edited the book, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop.
His first book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, garnered many honors, including the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World,” by KQED as an Asian Pacific Amer Jeff Chang has written extensively on culture, politics, the arts, and music. Based 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 60s into the new millennium.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. 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. Summary: Forged 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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