Margo Jefferson and Daryl Pinckney on the Black Bourgeoisie

Clothing can be a way of standing out. But dress is also a method for fitting in, or adhering to the often unspoken codes that govern our social circles. That was certainly the case for Margo Jefferson, whose memoir "Negroland" describes growing among Chicago’s black elite. In Darryl Pinckney’s haunting but humorous, sharply observant "Black Deutschland" the personal, political and historical merge for protagonist Jed, a black, gay man who finds himself in Berlin in the age of AIDS. Join the long-time contributor to The New York Review of Books and Jefferson, former New York Times critic and Columbia University professor, for a conversation on style and the black bourgeoisie.

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