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Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson

The LRB Podcast

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Afro Pessimism in America Today

The New York Times being a leading example yes exactly. The insistence the cultural presence and insistence on you know this is what we call American or diasporic culture that is a good thing but I am partly an Afro pessimist about this, he says. "I remember so clearly the backlash in the mid-late 70s when suddenly there's this fatigue that sets in"

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