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Negroland : a memoir
- Title
- Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson.
- Author
- Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 15-1429 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm
- 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.)"--
- Subjects
- African American women > Illinois > Chicago > Biography
- Jefferson, Margo, 1947- > Childhood and youth
- African Americans > Race identity
- Jefferson family
- Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Anecdotes
- Elite (Social sciences) > Illinois > Chicago
- Autobiographies
- Black author
- African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248).
- Call Number
- Sc D 15-1429
- ISBN
- 9780307378453
- 0307378454
- LCCN
- 2015006843
- OCLC
- 898228286
- 898228286
- Author
- Jefferson, Margo, 1947- author.
- Title
- Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson.
- Publisher
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248).
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 15-1429
