Negroland : a memoir
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New York : Pantheon Books, [2015].
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First edition.
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248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, [2015].
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Book
Edition
First edition.
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English
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40025241937

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-248).
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"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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jefferson, M. (2015). Negroland: a memoir (First edition.). Pantheon Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jefferson, Margo, 1947-. 2015. Negroland: A Memoir. Pantheon Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jefferson, Margo, 1947-. Negroland: A Memoir Pantheon Books, 2015.

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Jefferson, Margo. Negroland: A Memoir First edition., Pantheon Books, 2015.

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