![]() ![]() The memoir focuses on Jefferson’s childhood in a community of affluent African-Americans in Chicago, but it is also a reflection on the history and status of America’s black elite more generally. In Constructing a Nervous System, she writes about the family members, artists, athletes, intellectuals, and activists who have influenced her the most. Negroland is a 2015 memoir by American author and academic Margo Jefferson, a former theatre critic at the New York Times. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation grant, Jefferson currently teaches writing at Columbia University. Her essays and reviews have been published in a variety of other periodicals, including Vogue, Harper’s Magazine, and New York Magazine, among many others. A former longtime theater and book reviewer for Newsweek and The New York Times, she won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for her cultural criticism. She is also the author of On Michael Jackson, an analysis of Jackson’s cultural legacy as a pop star and celebrity. “A national treasure” ( Vanity Fair), Margo Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir Negroland, an examination of her upbringing and education amongst a small segment of privileged Black society in the United States. In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition ![]()
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