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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jefferson, Margo, 1947- author.     Subjects     Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.     Jefferson family.     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.     Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jefferson, Margo, 1947- author.       by title:      Negroland : a memoir...         MARC Display

Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson. by Jefferson, Margo, 1947- author. New York : Pantheon Books, c2015. Subjects Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.   Jefferson family.   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.   Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes. Electronic Resource 9780307378453.jpg ISBN:  9780307378453 : 0307378454 Description:  248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 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.)"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.89607 Jefferson Je Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.89607 Jefferson Je Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.89607 Jefferson Je Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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