Month: November 2015

Prof. Karen Hunter interviews Margo Jefferson

cover of Karen Hunter's Negroland: a Memoir Professor Karen Hunter speaks with Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson about her memoir on growing up in an upper middle class black family in Chicago, a place she calls “Negroland.” Jefferson delves into pressures on the black elite in the 1950s to look, speak, and act in a way that would be acceptable to whites.

Listen to the podcast here.