Negroland - A Memoir
Jefferson Margo
Pantheon (2015)
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African American Girls - Social Conditions - Illinois, African American Women - Biography. - Illinois, African Americans - Race Identity, African Americans - Social Life And Customs - Illinois, Chicago (Ill.) - Race Relations - Anecdotes, Chicago Region (Ill.) - Biography, Elite (Social Sciences) - Illinois
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"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation's oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite--Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society. Since the nineteenth century they have stood apart, these inhabitants of Negroland, "a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty." Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments--the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America--Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heart-wrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance. (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)"--
Product Details
LoC Classification F548.9.N4 .J44 2015
LoC Control Number 2015006843
Dewey 305.896/0730773
No. of Pages 256
Height x Width 9.1 x 0.9  inch
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