Author Margo Jefferson has written one of the most significant and well-received memoirs of the 21st century in Negroland, which was first published in 2015. Constructing a Nervous System is Jefferson's follow-up memoir to Negroland and was...

Negroland is a memoir by American writer Margo Jefferson. It was published in 2015 by Pantheon Books. Margo was born in 1947 in an affluent African-American neighborhood, to a pediatrician father and socialite mother. They made it possible for her...