COMMUNITY DIALOGUES: JEFF CHANG: ARE WE GON' BE ALRIGHT?

Monday, September 18 at 7:00pm to 8:30pm
RISD Auditorium
17 Canal Walk, Providence RI

Jeff Chang is the Executive Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University, the founder of the artist network CultureStr/ke and the news site ColorLines, as well as the author of several books on politics, the arts, and hip hop, including We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation, Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America, and Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. Chang is one of many thinking seriously about America’s history of racial violence and division; overall, in his work, he seeks to empower artists to disrupt social norms and envision a truly just world rooted in shared humanity.