Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson
The LRB Podcast
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Du Bois's Double Consciousness
The burdens of what Du Bois called double consciousness are one of the great themes of your memoir. Do you think that the condition of double consciousness is even more difficult in that era for the black elite? America is such a brutally status conscious society where people who don't succeed are considered losers, moral, as well as economic failures. You're always fighting to get Duke Ellington and Count Basie. And I know there that's high culture.
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