Negroland: A Memoir

Negroland: A Memoir image
ISBN-10:

1783783028

ISBN-13:

9781783783021

Author(s): Margo Jefferson
Edition: 01
Released: Jun 02, 2016
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback, 256 pages
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Description:

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. 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.











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