We are pleased to announce Jeff Chang's upcoming visit to Duke! Chang will be appearing in two events co-sponsored by the Multicultural Center: this public lecture and East Meets South: A Panel Discussion on Asian American Organizing in the South. These events are being held in conjunction with the release of "East Meets South: 150 Years of Asian/Southern Intersections," a special issue of Southern Exposure magazine published by the Durham-based Institute for Southern Studies.

Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for over a decade. He has written extensively on race, culture, politics, arts, and music. His book, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation (2005), recently won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award.

He began working as a hip-hop journalist in 1991 with URB and The Bomb Hip-Hop magazines, and has written for the Village Voice, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the Los Angeles Weekly, Vibe, Spin, The Nation, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post, among others. He was a Senior Editor/Director at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com, and a founding editor of ColorLines magazine.

In 1993, he co-founded and ran the influential hip-hop indie label, SoleSides, now Quannum Projects, helping launch the careers of DJ Shadow, Blackalicious, Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truth Speaker. He has helped produce over a dozen records, including the "godfathers of gangsta rap," the Watts Prophets.

For more on Jeff Chang and his work, visit: www.cantstopwontstop.com.

Event co-sponsors: Institute for Southern Studies/Southern Exposure Magazine (Durham, NC); North Carolina Humanities Council; African & African American Studies Program; Asian Students Association; Asian/Pacific Studies Institute; Center for Asian & Asian American Studies; Institute for Critical US Studies; Office of Community Affairs; Office of the Vice Provost of Interdisciplinary Studies.