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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers WeeklyThe Pulitzer P...

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art.

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Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography, " comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir.Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that ...

Negroland non è Harlem a New York, né Bronzeville a Chicago, è un'enclave senza confini geografici, protetta da benessere e privilegi in un paese segnato dai conflitti razziali. Negroland è "l'elite di colore", una classe nascosta tra le pieghe di una nazione che ha creato il mito della società senza classi. È un microcosmo regolato da un'etichetta minuziosa, ossessionato dalla perfezione, dove si bada alla tonalità della pelle, alla forma del...

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Als dochter van een kinderarts en een modieuze moeder groeide Margo Jefferson op te midden van de hoogopgeleide en welvarende zwarte elite in Chicago in tijden van segregatie - in wat zij 'Negroland' noemt.Tegen de achtergrond van beslissende historische gebeurtenissen als de burgerrechtenbeweging, de opkomst van het feminisme en de schijn van een postraciale tijd, brengt Jefferson haar leven in kaart, dat werd getekend door psychologische en ...

A deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture, told through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among Chicago's black elite. Margo Jefferson is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and this will be a "Book Of The Week" on BBC Radio 4 in June.

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Heartland PrizeA New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Time Out New York, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kansas City Star, Men's Journal, Oprah.com Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Pro...

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of femin...

In On Michael Jackson-an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis-Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a "What Is It"? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Vic...