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Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic and writer Margo Jefferson discusses her book On Michael Jackson and her memoir Negroland. Her memoir recounts her memories of coming of age among the midcentury Negro elite in Chicago. Jefferson talks about how ideals of black respectability impacted the ways young black women thought about and treated their bodies and appearance. Jefferson gave lectures titled “From ‘I’ to ‘We’: The Role of the Citizen-Critic” at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Portland on May 30th and 31st, 2018 as the Oregon Humanities Center’s 2017-18 Kritikos Lecturer in the Humanities.
