The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781783783038
- 9781783783038
- Category:
- Black & Asian studies
- Format:
- Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
- Publication Date:
- 02-06-2016
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Granta Publications
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Gender studies: women
Black & Asian studies
Memoirs
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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