Margo Jefferson: ‘I was anxious about using the word Negro in a book title’

The author, critic and academic, discusses Negroland, her acclaimed memoir of growing up in an emerging postwar elite in black American society• Read an extract from Negroland hereMargo Jefferson was born in Chicago in 1947. She was for many years a theatre critic at the New York Times and is now professor of the professional practice of writing at Columbia University.Negroland, a memoir of your growing up in the emergent and precarious postwar elite of black society in America, feels like