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Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
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Women, Black -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
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Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
Jefferson family.
Women, Black -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
Girls, Black -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Race identity.
Class consciousness -- Illinois -- Chicago Region.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
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Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson.
by
Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
Call #:
305.896073 J45n
Subjects
Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
--
Childhood and youth.
Jefferson family.
Women, Black
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Biography.
Girls, Black
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
Region
--
Social
conditions
--
20th
century
.
Blacks
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
--
Social
life
and
customs
--
20th
century
.
Blacks
--
Race identity.
Class consciousness
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
Region.
Elite (
Social
sciences)
--
Illinois
--
Chicago
Region.
Chicago
(Ill.)
--
Race relations
--
History
--
20th
century
.
Chicago
Region (Ill.)
--
Social
life
and
customs
--
20th
century
--
Anecdotes.
Chicago
Region (Ill.)
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780307378453 (hc.)
0307378454 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Negro land : a memoir
Edition:
First edition
Description:
248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"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. The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson was for years a theater and book critic for Newsweek and The New York Times. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, New York magazine, and The New Republic. She is the author of "On Michael Jackson" and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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