Overview

Margo Jefferson’s memoir Negroland is a tongue-in-cheek meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the privileged prism of Chicago’s black elite. Angela Flournoy’s debut novel The Turner House tells a multi-generational saga amidst the decline of Detroit’s East Side. Marcus Guillory’s Red Now and Laters gives us a coming-of-age story set in the Creole and cowboy infused East Texas of the 1980s. These authors complicate the relationship between race and class, privilege and oppression, and offer truths – sometimes hysterical, sometimes heartbreaking – on what it means to be caught at the intersection.