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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Blogs

» The Beat

Facing Bipartisan Criticism, RNC's Steele Asks If Race Is Factor | "Why? Is it because Michael Steele is the chairman, or is it because a black man is chairman?” he wonders. Maybe he could compare notes with Obama.
John Nichols
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» Editor's Cut

New Web Column at The Washington Post | Every Tuesday, I'll be featuring progressive thinking about politics and challenging the Right in my new web column for The Washington Post. Read my first one here.
Katrina vanden Heuvel
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» The Notion

When Snow Melts: Vancouver’s Olympic Crackdown | Anger is growing in Vancouver in advance of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Like Olympic clockwork, here comes the media crackdown.
Dave Zirin
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» The Dreyfuss Report

The Mind-Boggling Stupidity of Michael Rubin | How an AEI apparatchik's love affair for Ahmed Chalabi blinds him to Chalabi's pro-Iran treachery.
Robert Dreyfuss
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» Act Now!

Demand Question Time | Join the call for the President and Congress to implement regular Question Time sessions.
Peter Rothberg
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» And Another Thing

How to Counterbalance Focus on the Family on Superbowl Sunday | Give to help low income girls and women.
Katha Pollitt
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» Altercation

Slacker Friday | James O'Keefe and Alter-reviews.
Eric Alterman