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Negroland
- A Memoir
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Autobiography, 2015.
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac - here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a Black elite concerned with distancing itself from Whites and the Black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both.
Born 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 19th 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 postracial America - Margo 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-03-28
A fascinating view into a world unknown
This book offered an intimate peak into a world of experience in the society of negroes and the wider American society. In the present day conflicts around race relations, this book provides essential background of how society was in terms of what it e was like to be a Negro in America’s history.
Great book!
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- Jonathon Horel
- 2022-02-26
I Couldn't Stop...
I couldn't sleep. I couldn't stop listening. I can't stop thinking about what Jefferson had to say... My brain is hostage. Send help.
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