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Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland: A Memoir, and Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of U.S. History and Director of African and African American Studies at Stanford University, examine the creation of the Black middle and upper classes, social clubs, feminism, and the ways in which these themes play a role in CAAM’s exhibition Rights and Rituals: The Making of African American Debutante Culture. Jefferson is the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism and previously served as book and arts critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. In Negroland: A Memoir, she maps the complexities of a life informed by her rarefied upbringing and education among a Black elite.