Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson
The LRB Podcast
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You Don't Learn to Be a Cultural Critic by Being a Part of Jack and Jill
The author's parents had a better understanding of American society than most whites did, he says. "You're seeing yourself in many stages as if you were on a theater," the writer writes. The 60s and 70s are great for cultural criticism because everything is violently shifting,. but you can't pretend unless you're a fool that you weren't this other person before."
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