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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Jefferson, Margo, 1947-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jefferson, Margo, 1947-       by title:      Negroland : a memoir...       by call number:      305.896073 J45n     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Black Nonfiction 305.896073 J45n Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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