Download the fantastic book titled Negroland written by Margo Jefferson, available in its entirety in both PDF and EPUB formats for online reading. This page includes a concise summary, a preview of the book cover, and detailed information about "Negroland", which was released on 08 September 2015. We suggest perusing the summary before initiating your download. This book is a top selection for enthusiasts of the Biography & Autobiography genre.
Summary of Negroland by Margo Jefferson PDF
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.” 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. 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.” Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.
Detail About Negroland PDF
- Author : Margo Jefferson
- Publisher : Vintage
- Genre : Biography & Autobiography
- Total Pages : 256 pages
- ISBN : 1101870648
- Release Date : 08 September 2015
- PDF File Size : 47,5 Mb
- Language : English
- Rating : 4/5 from 1 reviews
Clicking on the GET BOOK button will initiate the downloading process of Negroland by Margo Jefferson. This book is available in ePub and PDF format with a single click unlimited downloads.
