“Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.”

American writer and academic

Margo Jefferson is an American writer, academic, and journalist known for her criticism. She was writing for The New York Times from 1993 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1995. Her work has also appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, The Nation, and Guernica. She is known for cultural criticism and essays that move across literature, art, and public life.