Negroland: a memoir
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9780307378453
9781101870648
9780307473431
9781101870648
9780307473431
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| Grouping Title | negroland |
| Grouping Author | margo jefferson |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-05-14 05:07:23AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-05-14 05:14:11AM |
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NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic
Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”
Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South.
It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs—a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and “the masses of Negros,” and where the motto was “Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.”
Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.
Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.”
Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South.
It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs—a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and “the masses of Negros,” and where the motto was “Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.”
Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.
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2015
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African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
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African Americans -- Race identity
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region
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Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
African Americans -- Race identity
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Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region
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Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth
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Negroland A Memoir
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Jefferson, Margo
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