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Negroland
Margo Jefferson
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Description for Negroland
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGHA; BM; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 200.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783783397
SKU
V9781783783397
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About Margo Jefferson
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, MARGO JEFFERSON writes for the Guardian, Vogue and The New York Times, among other publications. Her recent memoir, Negroland, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir, and was serialised on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week'. She is a professor ... Read more
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