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Author Jefferson, Margo, 1947- author.

Title Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F548.9.N4 J44 2015    Available  ---
Edition First edition.
Description 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248).
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. (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
Jefferson family.
Jefferson family.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African American women.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Elite (Social sciences)
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans.
Manners and customs.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
ISBN 9780307378453 hardcover
0307378454 hardcover
9781101870648 electronic book
Standard No. 40025241937