Negroland a memoir
"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, w...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Jefferson, Margo, |d 1947- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Negroland : |b a memoir / |c Margo Jefferson. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Pantheon Books, |c [2015] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2015 | |
| 300 | |a 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b portraits ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-248). | ||
| 520 | |a "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.)"--Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Elite (Social sciences) |z Illinois |z Chicago. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a African Americans |z Illinois |z Chicago |x Social life and customs |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Chicago (Ill.) |x Race relations |x History |y 20th century |v Anecdotes. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Autobiographies. |2 lcgft | |
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