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Margo Jefferson
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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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…
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Tisa Bryant, Margo Jefferson
Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON
In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scnes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within various visual…
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Michael Jackson was once universally acclaimed as a song-and-dance man of genius; Wacko Jacko is now, more often than not, dismissed for his bizarre race and gender transformations and confounding…
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Margo Jefferson takes on the legend and legacy of the King of Pop.
A New York times notable book –Back cover.
In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and intellectual formation.
As she comes of age in an America whose freedoms are…
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times culture critic comes a bracing, personal, and deeply thoughtful reflection on the cultural significance of Michael Jackson. It is an illuminating reckoning with…
Oliver Munday,Margo Jefferson
Whip-smart, and with a ripped-from-the-headlines attitude, this book is a call to arms, demonstrating the unique ability of graphic design to speak truth to power.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Introduced by Margo Jefferson, this forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman’s coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago.
Nicholas Cullinan
Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, June 28-October 21, 2018; Grand Palais, Paris, November 21, 2018-February 20, 2019; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn…
Steven C Dubin,Richard Cahan
A dazzling and surprising visual visit to Bronzeville, Chicago’s vibrant African-American community, during the segregated 1940s and 1950s. –Provided by publisher.
