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    Negroland: A Memoir

     
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    Negroland: A Memoir

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    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

    Winner of the Heartland Prize

    A New York Times Notable Book

    One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Time, Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, Time Out New York, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Kansas City Star, Men's Journal, Oprah.com

    Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. In these pages, Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: "I call it Negroland," she writes, "because I still find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible."

    Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs-a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and "the masses of Negros," and where the motto was "Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment." At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.

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    EAN/ISBN:
    9780307473431
    Edition:
    Reprint
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    272
    Publication date:
    2016-08-23
    Publisher:
    Vintage
    Languages:
    english
    EAN/ISBN:
    9780307473431
    Edition:
    Reprint
    Medium:
    Paperback
    Number of pages:
    272
    Publication date:
    2016-08-23
    Publisher:
    Vintage
    Languages:
    english

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