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Negroland : a memoir

Jefferson, Margo, 1947-,
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First edition.

"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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  • 23 of 23 copies available at Westchester Library System.
  • 1 of 1 copy available at New Rochelle Public Library System. (Show)
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New Rochelle Public Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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Bedford Free Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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Briarcliff Manor Public Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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Chappaqua Library BIOGRAPHY JEFFERSON, MARGO (Text)
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Greenburgh Public Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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Harrison Public Library BIO JEFFERSON (Text)
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Hendrick Hudson Free Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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Irvington Public Library BIO JEFFERSON, M (Text)
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John C. Hart Memorial Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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Katonah Village Library B JEFFERSON (Text)
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