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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Negroland
    sub title: a memoir
  name:
    name part: Jefferson, Margo
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 248 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: "At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 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 post-racial America-- Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heart-wrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance. (With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)"--
  note: Margo Jefferson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-248).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-il
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson, Margo
      name part: 1947-
    topic: Childhood and youth
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jefferson family
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
  subject:
    topic: African Americans
    geographic: Illinois
    geographic: Chicago
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Chicago (Ill.)
    topic: Race relations
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
    genre: Anecdotes
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
  classification: F548.9.N4 J44 2015
  classification: 305.896/0730773110904
  identifier: 9780307378453
  identifier: 0307378454
  identifier: 9781101870648
  identifier: 2015006843
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150428
    record change date: 20170928134013.0
    record identifier: in00003588401
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng