Tag: Jeff Chang

  • Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, California 94025-4349 Tuesday, 2015-01-26, 19:30 PST (Local Time) It’s hard to express just how cool and important Who We Be is with words alone. Jeff seems to share this sentiment when it comes to a cultural history of the idea…

  • When asked what he thinks of the “Is he black enough?” discussion, Obama grins. Perhaps it’s that bit of [Muhammad] Ali in him. “If you go to my barbershop, the Hyde Park Hair Salon, 53rd Street on the Southside, and you ask my guys in there, people don’t understand the question,” he says. “But it’s…

  • Can the freshman senator from Illinois stick to his ideals and still become the first man to rock Air Force Ones on Air Force One? We’re entering the most hotly contested election of our lifetime. It s time to decide. Is Barack Obama our man?

  • ‘Who We Be,’ by Jeff Chang Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2014-12-12 Tricia Rose, Director Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown ­University, Providence, Rhode Island Who We Be: The Colorization of America. By Jeff Chang. Illustrated. 403 pp. St. Martin’s Press. $32.99. The dramatic changes spurred by the…

  • Who We Be: The Colorization of America St. Martin’s Press (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2014 416 pages 7.81 x 9.33 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780312571290; ISBN10: 0312571291 Jeff Chang, Executive Director Institute for Diversity in the Arts Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago…