<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Jefferson, Margo, 1947-]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Jefferson, Margo, 1947-]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=Jefferson%2C%20Margo%2C%201947-&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:40:40 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[On Michael Jackson]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1133760</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1133760</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jefferson, Margo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1133760126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307277657/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Michael Jackson]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1072995</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1072995</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jefferson, Margo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1072995126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375423260/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The HistoryMakers Video Oral History With Margo Jefferson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Professor and art critic Margo Jefferson was born on October 17, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She received her B.A. degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University in 1968, and her M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1971. In 1973, Jefferson was hired as an associate editor for Newsweek magazine. She became an assistant professor at New York University in 1979, and, from 1984 to 1989, worked as an arts criticism contributing editor for Vogue magazine. In 1991, Jefferson was hired as a lecturer and later a professor of writing at Columbia University. In 1993, she accepted a position at the New York Times as a culture critic. While at the Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1995, and was promoted to critic-at-large in 1996. Jefferson's autobiography, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2016.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2307782</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2307782</guid><category><![CDATA[VIDEO_ONLINE]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2307782126</comments><format>VIDEO_ONLINE</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Dolls]]></title><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1890749</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1890749</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1890749126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>From the Collection of Deborah Neff</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781934435892/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constructing A Nervous System]]></title><description><![CDATA["Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble her as well as those that thrill and restore. In this nervous system: The sounds of a black spinning disc of a 1950's jazz LP as intimate and instructive as a parent's voice. The muscles and movements of a ballerina, spliced with those of an Olympic runner: template for what a female body could be.  Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy finds her way into the art of Kara Walker and the songs of Cécile McLorin Salvant. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner become alter egos. W.E.B. DuBois and George Eliot meet illicitly, as he appropriates lines from her story "The Hidden Veil" to write his famous "behind the veil" passages in The Souls of Black Folk. The words of multiple others (writers, singers, film characters, friends, family) act as prompts and as dialogue. The fragments of this brilliant book, while not neglecting family, race, and class, are informed by a kind of aesthetic drive: longing, ecstasy, or even acute ambivalence.  Constructing a nervous system is Jefferson's relentlessly galvanizing mis en scene for unconventional storytelling as well as a platform for unexpected dramatis personae"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2403307</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2403307</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jefferson, Margo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2403307126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524748173/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negroland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. In these pages, Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: "I call it Negroland," she writes, "because I still find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible." Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs--a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and "the masses of Negros," and where the motto was "Achievement.  Invulnerability. Comportment." At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1778760</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1778760</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jefferson, Margo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1778760126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307473431/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negroland]]></title><description><![CDATA["At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both.  Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation's oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite--Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society. Since the nineteenth century they have stood apart, these inhabitants of Negroland, "a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty."  Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments--the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America--Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heart-wrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance.  (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1685979</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1685979</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jefferson, Margo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1685979126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307378453/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negroland]]></title><description><![CDATA[At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1720320</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C1720320</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jefferson, Margo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1720320126</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781504681544/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>