Welcome to Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop website, version 2.0. This new site, redesigned and updated by 226 Design and Kuwayama Design, features all you need to know about the award-winning book and its author, the latest news and a list of Jeff’s upcoming appearances, the infamous Zentronix blog, and an ever-growing archive of Jeff’s writings on politics, culture, and hip-hop. Step in the arena…
Me in LARB + Who We Be Update
Friday, January 20th, 2012
After a while it gets difficult not to start every blog post with the opening lines of “I Know You Got Soul”. So cutting to the chase–pretty much the single figure of speech that sums our media desires these days–I’ve been woodshedding for a couple-few years trying to bring this Who We Be: The Colorization [...]
In Defense Of Libraries
Monday, June 20th, 2011
This is from a talk I gave today at a rally to save the Oakland library system from proposed massive closures. I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of the arts in changing society, the role of culture in moving politics, and the spaces where this kind of cultural change and political change [...]
Jeff’s At Work On Two New Books
Jeff has begun working on Who We Be: The Colorization of America, the followup to Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Total Chaos…
CSWS V. 2.0 Launches!
After 5 years, we’ve finally overhauled the entire website. Here’s what we did.
The Reader is the online archive of Jeff’s writings on culture, politics, music, and more. It includes excerpts and outtakes from Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and interviews with Jeff. Articles are being added regularly, so come back often.
WHO WE BE PREVIEW : Post-Racial Or Post-Hope? :: Race In The Obama Era
This piece was commissioned by Folha De São Paulo‘s Sunday magazine, Ilustríssima at the midpoint of Obama’s first term. It meant to capture the racial moment in the U.S. for Brazilian audiences, but it also reveals some of the themes and topics of Who We Be: The Colorization of America, due out on St. Martin’s Press in late 2011.
Saturday Nite Fresh : An Interview With Uncle Jamm’s Army
In tribute to the late great Rodger “Uncle Jamm” Clayton, here are large excerpts from a 1994 interview conducted by me and Mike Nardone, featuring Iceberg and Egyptian Lover. Plus, you can download the original Rap Pages article…
The Creativity Stimulus
Every moment of major social change requires a collective leap of imagination. Political transformation must be accompanied not just by spontaneous and organized expressions of unrest and risk, but by an explosion of mass creativity…
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Upcoming Appearances
PANEL & SCREENING :: Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (San Francisco)
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