Jeff Chang's award-winning books include Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, and Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America).
His latest, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation, was named the Northern California Nonfiction Book Of The Year, and the Washington Post declared it "the smartest book of the year." In May 2019, he and director Bao Nguyen produced and created a four-episode digital series adaptation of the book for PBS Indie Lens Storycast.
He has been a USA Ford Fellow in Literature, the winner of the American Book Award and the Asian American Literary Award, and was named to the Frederick Douglass 200.
