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	Negroland 3.62 avg rating — 7,968 ratings — published 2015 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks, Margo Jefferson (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Angela Lewis (Narrator) 4.10 avg rating — 4,050 ratings — published 1953 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir 3.77 avg rating — 1,566 ratings — published 2022 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mrs. Dalloway Reader by Virginia Woolf, Francine Prose (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Margo Jefferson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.88 avg rating — 1,116 ratings — published 2003 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Michael Jackson 3.74 avg rating — 912 ratings — published 2006 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maud Newton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Roxana Robinson (Contributor) 3.61 avg rating — 719 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Woman's Work: Essays on Music by Kim Gordon (Editor), Sinéad Gleeson (Editor), Anne Enright 3.70 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 2022 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ripping Off Black Music 3.93 avg rating — 146 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roots of Time: A Portrait of African Life and Culture (Awp Young Readers Series) by Margo Jefferson (Goodreads Author), Elliott P. Skinner 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1974 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New York Times Magazine (The Lives They Lives...A Special issue , Jerry Siegel , G. david Schine , Jessica Dubroff , Barbara Jordan , Martha Entenmann , Herbert Huncke , Ella Fitzgerald , Martin Scorsese , Saul Bass & others, December 29 , 1996) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“So I won’t trap myself into quantifying which matters more, race, or gender, or class. Race, gender, and class are basic elements of one’s living. Basic as utensils and clothing; always in use; always needing repairs and updates. Basic as body and breath, justice and reason, passion and imagination. So the question isn’t “Which matters most?,” it’s “How does each matter?” Gender, race, class; class, race, gender—your three in one and one in three.”
― Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir

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“Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege. Our people have had to work, scrape for privilege, gobble it down when those who would snatch it away weren’t looking. Keep a close watch.”
― Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir

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“Being an Other, in America, teaches you to imagine what can't imagine you.”
― Margo Jefferson, Negroland

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What should be our June 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (North/Central America)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (USA)

12 votes 19.4%

The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez (Mexico/USA)

11 votes 17.7%

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson (USA)

9 votes 14.5%

One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul (Canada)

8 votes 12.9%

The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

7 votes 11.3%

Glass Houses by Rachel Caine (USA)

5 votes 8.1%

The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier (USA)

4 votes 6.5%

Republic Of Dirt : A Return to Woefield Farm by Susan Juby (Canada)

2 votes 3.2%

Not Lost Forever: My Story of Survival by Carmina Salcido (Mexico/US)

2 votes 3.2%

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns (USA)

1 vote 1.6%

Company Town by Madeline Ashby (Canada)

1 vote 1.6%

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