Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson
The LRB Podcast
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The Black Middle Class in the 1960s
Nella Larson wrote about suicide and so did the playwrights Adrian Kennedy and entos a que change who were literary heroes of yours. Nella Larson's memoir is very discreet but what I found striking was this observation that black women had in in your words been denied the privilege of freely yielding to depression or flaunting the roses as a mark of social and psychic complexity Unlike white women who could luxuriate in their vulnerability, she says.
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