Negroland : a memoir
Title
:
Negroland : a memoir
Author
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Jefferson, Margo, 1947- author.
ISBN
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9781504681544
9781504681568
Edition
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Unabridged.
Physical Description
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7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note
:
Compact discs.
Personal Subject
:
Jefferson, Margo, 1947--Childhood and youth.
Jefferson family.
Subject Term
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African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Geographic Term
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genre
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Audiobooks
Autobiographies
Added Author
:
Miles, Robin
Local Subject
:
Spoken compact disc collection.
Summary
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At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac-here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both.Born 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 postracial America-Margo Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heartwrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | SCD 921 JEFFERSON 7 DISCS | Audiobooks Nonfiction |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | SCD 921 JEFFERSON 7 DISCS | Audiobooks Nonfiction |