Jeff Chang at UH Mānoa

March 23, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, George 227

Jeff Chang is the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. His books include Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, which won the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, Who We Be: The Colorization of America (published in paperback in January 2016 under the new title, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America). His latest, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation, was published in September 2016. His next book will be a biography of Bruce Lee.

Jeff co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines. He was named by The Utne Reader as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World" and by KQED as an Asian Pacific American Local Hero. He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature with H. Samy Alim, he was the 2014 winner of the St. Clair Drake Teaching Award at Stanford University.


Event Sponsor
Dept of Ethnic Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Ruben Campos, (949) 287-2909, Eesdept@hawaii.edi

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