Negroland: A Memoir

Negroland: A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson (Author), Margo Jefferson (Author), Margo Jefferson (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Granta Books
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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

Author Bio
The winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, MARGO JEFFERSON writes for the Guardian, Vogue and The New York Times, among other publications. Her recent memoir, Negroland, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir, and was serialised on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week'. She is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.