02879cam a2200421 i 4500 623716550 TxAuBib 20220721120000.0 151205s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780307473431 paperback 0307473430 paperback (OCoLC)931642394 BTCTA BTCTA eng eng rda rda BTCTA rda BDX rda BTCTA YDXCP OCLCQ ZQP OCLCO OVY CGP OCLCO UtOrBLW TxAuBib BDX YDXCP OCLCQ ZQP OCLCO OVY CGP OCLCO UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Jefferson, Margo, 1947-, author. Negroland : A memoir / By Margo Jefferson. First Vintage Books edition. New York : Vintage Books, 2016. 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2015. Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248.) 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. 20220721. Jefferson, Margo 1947- Childhood and youth. Jefferson family. African American women Illinois Chicago Biography. African Americans Race identity. African Americans Illinois Chicago Social life and customs 20th century. Chicago (Ill) Race relations History 20th century Anecdotes. Chicago (Ill) Social life and customs 20th century Anecdotes. Chicago (Ill) Biography. Anecdotes. Autobiographies. Biographies. TXKPL