{"id":44670,"date":"2016-01-26T02:08:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T02:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44670"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T16:20:53","slug":"jeff-chang-in-conversation-with-adam-mansbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44670","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jeff Chang in conversation with Adam Mansbach<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Kepler’s Books<\/a>
\n1010 El Camino Real
\nMenlo Park, California 94025-4349
\nTuesday, 2015-01-26, 19:30 PST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s hard to express just how cool and important Who We Be<\/a><\/em> is with words alone. Jeff<\/a> seems to share this sentiment when it comes to a cultural history of the idea of racial progress because Who We Be<\/em> remixes comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/a> and Trayvon Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now you can join the conversation too: How do Americans see race now? How has that changed – and not changed – over the half-century? After eras framed by words like “multicultural” and “post-racial,” do we see each other anymore clearly? Join us for a timely discussion with journalist, music critic, and Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts<\/a> at Stanford University, Jeff Chang<\/a>. He will be interviewed by the author of Go the F**k to Sleep<\/em>, Adam Mansbach<\/a>, to celebrate the paperback release of Who We Be<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jeff Chang<\/a> co-founded and ran the indie hip hop label, then known as SoleSides, but now known as Quannum Projects, and helped launch the careers of DJ Shadow<\/a>, Blackalicious<\/a>, Lyrics Born<\/a>, and Lateef the Truth Speaker<\/a>. The anti-apartheid<\/a> and the anti-racist movement at UC Berkeley politicized Chang and he worked as a community laborer and student organizer; Chang was an organizer of the inaugural National Hip-Hop Political Convention. In 2007 Chang interviewed Barack Obama<\/a>, for the cover of Vibe Magazine<\/em>. He’s the author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop<\/em><\/a> and has written for The Nation<\/em>, the New York Times<\/em>, the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, The Believer<\/em>, Foreign Policy<\/em>, Salon<\/em>, Slate<\/em>, and Buzzfeed<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n

Adam Mansbach is the author of Angry Black White Boy<\/em><\/a>, a San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> Best Book of 2005 and The End of the Jews<\/em> (for which he won the California Book Award for fiction in 2008). Mansbach was the founding editor of the 1990s hip-hop journal Elementary<\/em>. He lives in Berkeley<\/a> and co-hosts a radio show, “Father Figures.”…<\/p>\n

For more information and to RSVP, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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