19th Annual Bonner & Bonner Diversity Lecture Series
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Jeff Chang
A radican historian, hip-hop journalist, and expert on multiculturalism will present the 19th Annual Bonner & Bonner Diversity Lecture Series! Jeff Chang is the author of two books - "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation" and "Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop" - and is working on a third, "Who We Be: The Colorization of America."
His topic will be his study in "Can't Stop Won't Stop" in which he traverses continents and decades to show how hip-hop came to crystallize a multiracial generation's worldview. Chang draws on economics, social theory, and demographics to trace the tumultuous period in which hip-hop came to life - a time when the post-civil rights generations moved from out of the margins and into the mainstream. He speaks with passion, tempered with a critical understanding of pop culture, to tell students that this important history is actually their history.
Chang covered the 2008 presidential election for Vibe and vibe.com and continues to speak and write on the connection between cultural change and political change.
"Every moment of major social change requires a collective leap of imagination," wrote Chang in an article published in The Nation. "Political transformation must be accompanied not just by spontaneous and organized expression of unrest and risk, but by an explosion of mass creativity."