Negroland: A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson

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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.
  • ISBN10 0307378454
  • ISBN13 9780307378453
  • Publish Date 8 September 2015
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Imprint Pantheon Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English