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Negroland: A Memoir (AUDIO CD)
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- Seller Notes
- “UNABRIDGED AUDIO CD'S IN PROTECTIVE LIBRARY CASE WITH LIBRARY MARKINGS.”
- ISBN
- 9781504681568
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Negroland : a Memoir
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1504681568
ISBN-13
9781504681568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224473347
Product Key Features
Book Title
Negroland : a Memoir
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Number of Volumes
7 Vols.
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
Part memoir, part confession, part cultural critique, and part something that might be called prayer, Negroland is razor sharp, self-lacerating, and singular., Jefferson's descriptions of how she 'craved' the right to despair are some of the most haunting parts of the book., Highly recommended for biography and memoir lovers, historians, and readers interested in psychology and social movements., Jefferson swings the narrative back and forth through her life, exploring the tides of racism, opportunity, and dignity while also provocatively exploring the inherent contradictions for Jefferson and her family members in working so tirelessly to differentiate themselves., Negroland is not about raw racism or caricatured villains. It is about subtleties and nuances, presumptions, and slights that chip away at one's humanity and take a mental toll. It is the story of Jefferson's evolution, too., Jefferson is simultaneously looking in and looking out at her blackness, elusive in her terse, evocative reconnaissance, leaving us yearning to know more., Robin Miles narrates this insightful memoir...Miles' narration grows more emotional when the memoir describes Jefferson's youth in 1950s and '60s Chicago....Miles delivers a fascinating view of black class structure, attitudes on color, civil rights, feminism, privilege, and the fight for equality in white and black society., A candid observer, Jefferson articulates the complicated and calculated performance of upper-class black life., Jefferson's beautiful, unsettling account...may be a story about the past, but her observations on racial tension and prejudice in America ring true today as well. This is not just a book about one woman's history; it's a biography of the United States and the everyday struggle for equality., Chronicles a lifetime as a member of Chicago's black elite...How can a book so slim take on such mammoth considerations and manage them with such efficacy? Perhaps because we gain entry via one girl and, later, the woman she becomes.
Table of Content
I was taught to avoid showing off ... I'm a chronicler of Negroland ... 1861-1865: In the South ... March 6, 1944, Tombstone, Arizona 1. Are we rich? ... 2. "D and J asked me..." "Do we have Indian blood?" ... In Negroland we thought of ourselves ... Denise and Margo wear matching woolen coats ... Denise is in our parents' bedroom ... Every month I study the Ebony magazines ... Sit on the stairs with Denise and me ... Our parents wanted us to go ... All the bright young faces ... I think it's too easy to recount ... But I have to turn my mind to other things ... Sixth grade gave me proof ... University High: 1960-1964 ... Brandeis University, 1964-1968 In Negroland boys learned early ... Practice, practice, practice ... Looking back, I think my mother's words ... So much melancholy, I think ... Once, maybe ten years ago ... I believe it's too easy to recount ...
Copyright Date
2015
Dewey Decimal
305.896073077311
Dewey Edition
23
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