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Negroland: A Memoir

Negroland: A Memoir

Jefferson, Margo

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Biographies General20th Century United States HistoryBlack American Studies

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ISBN10: 0307473430
ISBN13: 9780307473431
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 23 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson

National Bestseller
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times Notable Book

Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: I call it Negroland, she writes, because I still find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.

Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South.

It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs--a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and the masses of Negros, and where the motto was Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.

Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments--the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.

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