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"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 gen...

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Main Author:	Jefferson, Margo, 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Jefferson, Margo, > 1947- > Childhood and youth. Jefferson family. African American women > Illinois > Chicago > Biography. African Americans > Race identity. Elite (Social sciences) > Illinois > Chicago. African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social life and customs > 20th century. Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Anecdotes. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. Autobiographies.

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