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Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson

Jefferson, Margo, 1947- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New York : Pantheon Books, [2015] [© 2015]

248 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

978-0-307-37845-3 (hardback)

978-1-101-87064-8 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2015006843

9780307378453

824032527

OCoLC: 935275582     

OCoLC: 935275582 (aus SWB)     

HU 9800      Ähnliche Literatur

F548.9.N4

305.8960730773110904 ; 305.896/0730773110904

Basisklassifikation: 71.62 (Ethnische Beziehungen) ; 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-AAC-DE-7

*USA ; Schwarze ; Frau ; Rassendiskriminierung ; Ethnische Identität ; Autobiografie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Jefferson, Margo 1947- -- Childhood and youth ; Jefferson family ; African American women -- Biography -- Illinois -- Chicago ; African Americans -- Race identity ; Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region ; African American girls -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago Region ; African Americans -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Illinois -- Chicago ; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies ; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century ; Chicago (Ill.) -- Anecdotes -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century ; Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Anecdotes -- Social life and customs -- 20th century ; Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography ; Jefferson, Margo -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth ; Jefferson family ; African Americans -- Race identity ; Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region ; African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography ; African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century ; African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century ; Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes ; Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes ; Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography

"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.)"--