Hip-Hop Author Discusses Asians in America

Jeff Chang, keynote speaker at this year’s East Coast Asian-American Student Union conference, sat down to talk with The Sun about issues pertinent to forming Asian-American identities.

Chang’s long and storied career includes time spent as a labor and student organizer, an Indie label record mogul and most notably as an author chronicling the rise of the hip-hop movement and its political implications. Chang, whose works include Can’t Stop, Don’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, spoke about the current issues facing Asian-Americans as they try to carve out their own identities along with the class warfare taking place at universities.