Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
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.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN-13
- 9781783783038
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Black elite societyRace and identityCivil rights era
Awards
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlistedMajor(2016)
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