by Margo Jefferson (Author), Margo Jefferson (Author), Margo Jefferson (Author)
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.
Format: paperback
Publisher: Granta Books
Published:
ISBN 10: 1783783397
ISBN 13: 9781783783397
Book Overview: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2016 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award: this is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture by a Pulitzer-prize winning critic