Jeff Chang

@zentronix

Jeff Chang is the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. He co-founded CultureStr/ke and ColorLines and is the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Who We Be: The Colorization of America.

Arts and Entertainment April 15, 2009

The Creativity Stimulus

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

Jeff Chang
Music November 1, 2007

News From Nowhere

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.

Jeff Chang
Music May 8, 2007

Hip-Hop’s E-Z Scapegoats

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

Jeff Chang and Dave Zirin
Music January 4, 2007

Moving On Up

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

Jeff Chang
Music December 23, 2002

‘Stakes Is High’

Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.

Jeff Chang
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Jeff Chang

Arts and Entertainment April 15, 2009

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

Music 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.

Music 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.

Music January 4, 2007

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

Music December 23, 2002

Fifteen years ago, rappers like Public Enemy, KRS-One and Queen Latifah were received as heralds of a new movement.

GET THE NATION IN YOUR INBOX EVERY MORNING