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02795aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 D9068E9C502911E89D5AB85E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180505010030 008 151205r20162015nyuaf b 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0307473430 020 $a 9780307473431 035 $a (OCoLC)931642394 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d ZQP $d OCLCO $d OVY $d CGP $d OCLCO $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a F548.9.N4 $b J44 2016 050 4 $a F548.9.N4 $b J44 2016 100 1 $a Jefferson, Margo, $d 1947- $e author 245 10 $a Negroland : $b a memoir / $c Margo Jefferson 250 $a First Vintage Books edition 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, $c 2016 300 $a 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; 21 cm 500 $a Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2015 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) 520 $a Pulitzer Prize--winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. In these pages, Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: "I call it Negroland," she writes, "because I still find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible." Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs--a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and "the masses of Negros," and where the motto was "Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment." At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America 600 10 $a Jefferson, Margo, $d 1947- $x Childhood and youth 600 30 $a Jefferson family 650 0 $a African American women $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography 650 0 $a African Americans $x Race identity 650 0 $a African Americans $z Chicago $z Chicago $x Social life and customs $y 20th century 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x History $x History $y 20th century $v Anecdotes 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $x Social life and customs $y 20th century $v Anecdotes 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $v Biography 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 4 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626020359.0 952 $l LTAX046 $d 20220805011021.0 952 $l MWPB943 $d 20180712042443.0 952 $l NVPB663 $d 20180505012401.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D9068E9C502911E89D5AB85E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search