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March 2017
$15.00

Angela Flournoy, Margo Jefferson and Marcus Guillory: Class in the Black Community

March 6, 2017 @ 7:30 pm
Faulkner Theatre,
201 East Capitol Street, SE , Washington, DC , 20003
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Overview (from Folger’s Website) Margo Jefferson’s memoir Negroland is a meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the privileged prism of Chicago’s Black elite. Angela Flournoy, in her novel The Turner House, tells a multi-generational saga through 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 write on race and class, privilege and oppression and offer stories—both funny…

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