The LRB Podcast

Myself with Others: Margo Jefferson

Jan 4, 2022

01:12:41

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Introduction

3min

How Conscious Were You Growing Up in Chicago?

3min

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2min

Is Your Mother a Negro?

3min

Is Your Father as Real as Your Mother Is in Your Book?

3min

Du Bois's Double Consciousness

2min

You Don't Learn to Be a Cultural Critic by Being a Part of Jack and Jill

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The We of a Black Separate America

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You Know You're a Young Woman and You Know You're an American Woman

3min

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Negro Land - What Can You Say Out Loud

2min

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How Did You Write Negroland?

2min

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How Deep Did You Grow Up With the Black Power Movement and How Did Your Parents React to It?

2min

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You Know You Know I'm a Black Arts Poet and I Was a Slave and I Was in Love With Barack Obama

2min

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The Black Woman Movement in the Second Wave Feminist Movement

2min

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Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Statement

2min

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The Black Experience in White Publishing

2min

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You Know I'm a Black Woman and I've Got a Leg Up

4min

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How to Write a Good Essay on Race and Racism

2min

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The End of Appropriation

3min

22.

Irma Franklin or Janice Joplin?

2min

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Negroland Is a Satirical Drama

2min

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The Black Middle Class in the 1960s

3min

25.

How Do You Feel When You Work at the New York Times?

2min

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A Book Review of Kathleen Collins's Interracial Love

2min

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Is Your Book Too Easy to Recount Unhappy Memories When You Write About Race?

2min

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Afropessimism Is a Black Culture

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Afro Pessimism in America Today

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I've Been a Little Too Invested in the Subject of the Accusations Against Michael Jackson

2min

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The Negro Man Is a Terrible Misogynist

2min

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Negro Land in a Title

2min

33.

Margot Jefferson on Self With Others by Adam Shatz

2min

In the first of three guest episodes from a new podcast, Myself with Others, hosted by Adam Shatz, writer and critic Margo Jefferson talks about her childhood in Chicago, her early experiences in radical theatre at Brandeis University, her relationship to the feminist and Black Power movements, her emergence as a writer, and her battles with melancholia. Produced by Richard Sears.

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