TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jefferson,Margo
TI  - Negroland : a memoir 
SN  - 9780307378453
AV  - F548.9.N4 J44 2015
U1  - 305.896073 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
KW  - Jefferson, Margo
KW  - Jefferson family
KW  - African American women
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Chicago Regio
KW  - African American girls
KW  - Chicago Region
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - History
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Chicago Region (Ill.)
N2  - "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.)"--
ER  -