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Negroland : a memoir
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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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0 current holds with 23 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | B JEFFERSON (Text) Biography |
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- ISBN: 9780307378453
- ISBN: 0307378454
- ISBN: 9780307473431
- Physical Description: 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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