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010			_a 2015006843
020			_a9780307378453 (hardback)
020			_a9780307473431 (paperback)
020			_z9781101870648 (e-book)
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100	1		_aJefferson, Margo, _d1947-
245	1	0	_aNegroland : _ba memoir / _cMargo Jefferson.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2015]
300			_a248 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"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.)"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Margo, _d1947- _xChildhood and youth.
650		0	_aAfrican American women _zIllinois _zChicago _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity.
650		0	_aElite (Social sciences) _zIllinois _zChicago Region.
600	3	0	_aJefferson family.
651		0	_aChicago (Ill.) _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century _vAnecdotes.
650		0	_aAfrican American girls _zIllinois _zChicago Region _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zIllinois _zChicago _xSocial life and customs _y20th century.
651		0	_aChicago Region (Ill.) _xSocial life and customs _y20th century _vAnecdotes.
651		0	_aChicago Region (Ill.) _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh
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