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1 online resource (1 audio file (480 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Robin Miles. |
| Summary |
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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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
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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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Jefferson family.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
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Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Miles, Robin, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982459918 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982459913 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11495246 |
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