Negroland
A Memoir
By Margo Jefferson
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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.
- ISBN:
- 9781783783021
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 256
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Granta Books
- Imprint:
- Granta Books
- Weight:
- 258 g