Negroland : a memoir
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Cedar Falls Public Library - Adult Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
305.896 JEF
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305.896 JEF
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
Bisac Subjects
OCLC Fast Subjects
African American girls -- Social conditions.
African American women.
African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Elite (Social sciences)
History.
Illinois -- Chicago Region.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947-
Manners and customs.
Race relations.
African American women.
African Americans -- Race identity.
African Americans -- Social life and customs.
Anecdotes.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Elite (Social sciences)
History.
Illinois -- Chicago Region.
Illinois -- Chicago.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947-
Manners and customs.
Race relations.
Local Subjects
Other Subjects
African American girls -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Chicago, Ill. -- Biography.
African Americans -- Chicago, Ill. -- Social life and customs.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography
Chicago, Ill. -- Biography.
Chicago, Ill. -- Race relations -- History -- Anecdotes.
Chicago, Ill. -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Chicago, Ill.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947-
Narrative non-fiction.
Noires américaines -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biographies.
Noirs américains -- Identité ethnique.
Noirs américains -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 20e siècle.
African American women -- Chicago, Ill. -- Biography.
African Americans -- Chicago, Ill. -- Social life and customs.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Autobiographies.
Autobiography
Chicago, Ill. -- Biography.
Chicago, Ill. -- Race relations -- History -- Anecdotes.
Chicago, Ill. -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Chicago, Ill.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947-
Narrative non-fiction.
Noires américaines -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biographies.
Noirs américains -- Identité ethnique.
Noirs américains -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 20e siècle.
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
UPC
40025241937, 99964041080
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248).
Description
"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.)"--,Provided by publisher.
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2015.
Local note
B&T Diversity Analysis 2022 : LCSH, BISAC.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jefferson, M. (2015). Negroland: a memoir (First edition.). Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947-. 2015. Negroland: A Memoir. New York: Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947-. Negroland: A Memoir New York: Pantheon Books, 2015.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Jefferson, M. (2015). Negroland: a memoir. First edn. New York: Pantheon Books.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo. Negroland: A Memoir First edition., Pantheon Books, 2015.
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