Negroland, a memoir, Margo Jefferson
Type
Classification
1
Creator
1
Genre
1
Subject
11
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- African Americans + Race identity
- Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
- Jefferson family
- Autobiographies
- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago
- African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography
Content
1
Author
1
Mapped to
1
Label
Negroland, a memoir, Margo Jefferson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-248)
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
platesportraits
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Negroland
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
898228286
Responsibility statement
Margo Jefferson
Sub title
a memoir
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.)"--, Provided by publisher
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1