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At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac-here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born 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 postracial America-Margo Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heartwrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
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Jefferson family.
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Jefferson family. |
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Jefferson, Margo, 1947- |
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1900-1999 |
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African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
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African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Nonfiction. |
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Biography & Autobiography. |
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History. |
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Sociology. |
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African American women. |
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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African Americans -- Social life and customs. |
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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Race relations. |
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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Audiobooks.
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Anecdotes.
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Audiobooks.
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Biography.
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History.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781504681506 : $45.95 |
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1504681509 : $45.95 |
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