Negroland : a memoir
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"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.)"--
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| Bedford Free Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31036150726187 |
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| Chappaqua Library | BIOGRAPHY JEFFERSON, MARGO (Text) Biography |
31005400009751 |
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| Greenburgh Public Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31009154226801 |
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| Harrison Public Library | BIO JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31010300044619 |
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| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31016151488599 |
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| Irvington Public Library | BIO JEFFERSON, M (Text) Biography |
31012154209058 |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31030154324065 |
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| Katonah Village Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31013151638257 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
31014152329227 |
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