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“... his skin got whiter and whiter, he became a recluse, and he invited children to stay at his ranch. Margo Jefferson’s essay on Michael Jackson displays a lively understanding of black performing history. Thankfully, there is not (yet) a Department of Michael Jackson Studies at Harvard, but Jefferson makes clear the ...”

“... with what it means to belong. ‘For they are touchy and proud these Jazz Age heroines,’ Margo Jefferson wrote. They read widely, wear soigné frocks, give smart parties and make clever remarks. They have keen minds, keen features and fair skin, and can be suitably ironic about ‘what called itself Negro society’. They cultivate the ...”