The Resource Negroland : a memoir, Margo Jefferson
Negroland : a memoir, Margo Jefferson
Resource Information
The item Negroland : a memoir, Margo Jefferson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in George F. Johnson Memorial Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Negroland : a memoir, Margo Jefferson represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in George F. Johnson Memorial Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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.)"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307378453
- Label
- Negroland : a memoir
- Title
- Negroland
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Margo Jefferson
- Subject
-
- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Autobiographies
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography
- Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- African American girls -- Illinois | Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Jefferson family
- Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois | Chicago Region
- African American women -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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.)"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jefferson, Margo
- Dewey number
- 305.896/0730773110904
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- F548.9.N4
- LC item number
- J44 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Jefferson, Margo
- Jefferson family
- African American women
- African Americans
- Elite (Social sciences)
- African American girls
- African Americans
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Chicago Region (Ill.)
- Chicago Region (Ill.)
- Label
- Negroland : a memoir, Margo Jefferson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307378453
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015006843
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Negroland : a memoir, Margo Jefferson
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307378453
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2015006843
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- African Americans -- Illinois | Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Race identity
- Autobiographies
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography
- Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes
- African American girls -- Illinois | Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Jefferson family
- Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois | Chicago Region
- African American women -- Illinois | Chicago -- Biography
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