ISBN:
9780307473431
Language:
English
Pages:
248 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First Vintage Books edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.896/0730773110904
Keywords:
Jefferson, Margo
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Frau
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Schwarze
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Ethnische Identität
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Rassendiskriminierung
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USA
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Jefferson, Margo / 1947- / Childhood and youth
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Jefferson family
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African Americans / Race identity
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Elite (Social sciences) / Illinois / Chicago Region
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African American women / Illinois / Chicago / Biography
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African American girls / Illinois / Chicago Region / Social conditions / 20th century
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African Americans / Illinois / Chicago / Social life and customs / 20th century
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Chicago (Ill.) / Race relations / History / 20th century / Anecdotes
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Chicago Region (Ill.) / Social life and customs / 20th century / Anecdotes
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Chicago Region (Ill.) / Biography
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Autobiografie
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Autobiografie
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Jefferson, Margo 1947-
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USA
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Schwarze
;
Frau
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Rassendiskriminierung
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Ethnische Identität
Abstract:
"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.)"
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