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008			150428s2015 nyu 000 0aeng
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100	1		_aJefferson, Margo _942568
245	1	0	_aNegroland _ba memoir
260			_aNew York _bPantheon Books _c2015
300			_a248p.
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.)"--
600	1	0	_aJefferson, Margo _942568
600	3	0	_aJefferson family _961983
650		0	_aAfrican American women _zIllinois _zChicago _vBiography _961984
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xRace identity _961985
650		0	_aElite (Social sciences) _zIllinois _zChicago Regio _961986
650		0	_aAfrican American girls _zIllinois _zChicago Region _xSocial conditions _y20th century _961987
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zIllinois _zChicago _xSocial life and customs _y20th century. _961988
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage _2bisacsh _937384
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies _2bisacsh _961989
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh _952852
651		0	_aChicago (Ill.) _xRace relations _xHistory _y20th century _vAnecdotes. _961990
651		0	_aChicago Region (Ill.) _xSocial life and customs _y20th century _vAnecdotes _961991
651		0	_aChicago Region (Ill.) _vBiography _961992
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