Negroland : a memoir
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New York : Vintage Books, 2016.
ISBN
9780307473431, 0307473430
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Homewood Public Library District - Stacks | 305.896 JEF | On Shelf |
Messenger Public Library of North Aurora - Nonfiction | 305.896 JEF | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
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Published
New York : Vintage Books, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780307473431, 0307473430
Notes
General Note
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2015.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248).
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. In these pages, Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: "I call it Negroland, " she writes, "because I still find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible." Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs--a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and "the masses of Negros, " and where the motto was "Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment." At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jefferson, M. (2016). Negroland: a memoir (First Vintage Books edition.). Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947-. 2016. Negroland: A Memoir. Vintage Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947-. Negroland: A Memoir Vintage Books, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo. Negroland: A Memoir First Vintage Books edition., Vintage Books, 2016.
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