{"id":54476,"date":"2017-08-05T21:29:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54476"},"modified":"2017-08-24T02:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T02:10:54","slug":"margo-jefferson-with-jackie-kay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54476","title":{"rendered":"Margo Jefferson with Jackie Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edbookfest.co.uk\/the-festival\/whats-on\/margo-jefferson-with-jackie-kay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Margo Jefferson with Jackie Kay<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edbookfest.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh International Book Festival<\/a><br \/>\nStudio Theatre<br \/>\n13-29 Nicolson St<br \/>\nEdinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom<br \/>\n<strong>Sunday, 2017-08-20, 20:45-21:45 BST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edbookfest.co.uk\/the-festival\/whats-on\/margo-jefferson-with-jackie-kay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d3v4sx4i2y2qe1.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/.media\/70368\/67dac432.png?height=331&amp;resize_method=center&amp;resize_quality=95&amp;width=432\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Feminism and Civil Rights<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning cultural critic <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margo_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margo Jefferson<\/a> is the author of a bold, defiant and astonishingly accomplished memoir, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Negroland<\/em><\/a>. Powerfully demonstrating that a \u2018post-racial\u2019 America is far from being a reality, Jefferson explores the challenge of reconciling feminism (often regarded as a white woman\u2019s terrain) with black power (sometimes seen as a black male issue). Jefferson discusses her compelling life story with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Makar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scotland\u2019s Makar<\/a>, the poet and novelist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jackie_Kay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jackie Kay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson discusses her compelling life story with Scotland\u2019s Makar, the poet and novelist Jackie Kay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13743,1196,8,10,20,25],"tags":[27269,13048,1587,20967,153],"class_list":["post-54476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","category-women","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-international-book-festival","tag-jackie-kay","tag-margo-jefferson","tag-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54477,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54476\/revisions\/54477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}