TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Negroland : a memoir
A1  - Jefferson, Margo, 1947- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books
YR  - 2015
ED  - First edition
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/helka.9930481393506253
AB  - "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.)"--
SN  - 978-0-307-37845-3 kovakantinen
KW  - Jefferson, Margo, : 1947- : Childhood and youth.
KW  - Jefferson family.
KW  - African American girls : Illinois : Chicago Region : Social conditions : 20th century.
KW  - African American women : Illinois : Chicago : Biography.
KW  - African Americans : Race identity.
KW  - African Americans : Illinois : Chicago : Social life and customs : 20th century.
KW  - Elite (Social sciences) : Illinois : Chicago Region.
KW  - Chicago (Ill.) : Race relations : History : 20th century : Anecdotes.
KW  - Chicago Region (Ill.) : Biography.
KW  - Chicago Region (Ill.) : Social life and customs : 20th century : Anecdotes.
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