How to be a Credit to Your Race
In Margo Jefferson’s Negroland: A Memoir, a personal and historical account of upper middle-class black family life in 1950s and 1960s Chicago, the colorline is something that must be learned.
Amber Jamilla Musser is assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Washington University in St. Louis, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (NYU Press, 2014).
In Margo Jefferson’s Negroland: A Memoir, a personal and historical account of upper middle-class black family life in 1950s and 1960s Chicago, the colorline is something that must be learned.