SIGNED Negroland: A Memoir By Margo Jefferson 1st Printing First Edition 2015 HC

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Book Series
None
Title
Negroland
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
MPN
Does not apply
Original Language
English
Intended Audience
Adults
Edition
First Edition
Brand
Unbranded
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No
Type
Memoirs
Special Attributes
1st Edition, Dust Jacket
Features
Dust Jacket
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780307378453
Book Title
Negroland : a Memoir
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
2015
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Margo Jefferson
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Topic
Women, Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, General, Customs & Traditions, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Width
5.4 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307378454
ISBN-13
9780307378453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208612889

Product Key Features

Book Title
Negroland : a Memoir
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Women, Cultural Heritage, United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, General, Customs & Traditions, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Margo Jefferson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.4 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-006843
Reviews
"Margo Jefferson's Negroland-- autopsy snapshots of mostly upper-class black ways of being and performing--is a tight-lipped performance of willed, earned, and harshly edited silence. Refusing to construct an erotic black body for white consumption, she desires nothing and challenges everything. Asking if it's possible or meaningful to be human, she posits etiquette as the interrogator of America's psyche. She can read a graveyard in a theater, personality in a hairsty≤ she lists instead of declaims. Her asperity is elegantly pithy and violent. In the fissures between and among items, she revolts. Her words are ascetic. She doesn't want me to envy her life, the fullness of which is only hinted at. She wants me to leave her alone to live within this sentence of her mother's: "Sometimes I almost forget I'm a Negro." The last two words, Go on , aren't just a writer walking off stage and getting on with life; they convey the pleasure of taunting future pain the truth of vision will surely yield." --David Shields "Margo Jefferson sees everything and expresses it with surgical clarity. She is the Toqueville of race in America. This is a great book, destined to be read for a century." --Edmund White "Margo Jefferson's memoir leaps from the mica-sharp evocations of her Chicago girlhood into a strikingly original consideration of American cultural history. If you think you were confident using the words "race" and "class," think again after reading this fierce interrogation of American life. A beautiful scorcher of a book, essential reading." --Patricia Hampl
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
305.896073077311
Synopsis
Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015 New York Times: Dwight Garner's Best Books of 2015 Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2015 Los Angeles Times: 31 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 Marie Claire: Best Books of 2015 Vanity Fair: Best Book Gifts of 2015 TIME Best Books of 2015 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 the author'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--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 photographs.)
LC Classification Number
F548.9.N4J44 2015

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  • by iamaka54
    Nov 09, 2015

    Love Negroland

    I loved the book, Negroland, by Margo Jefferson. It was well written and a compelling read. I grew up during that time and my background was similar to hers. So, I was able to relate to the book and the stories told in this wonderful book. Can't wait to read the next book by Ms. Jefferson.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: bestproductandbestprice

  • by soman-8330
    Aug 10, 2023

    Sum up life for black people living in white definitions of aparth ieid world ruled by whites .....

    The hardback of this product was in good condition with large print sought after and clean and presentable....

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-OwnedSold by: betterworldbooks

  • by bam411
    Mar 07, 2016

    make the time

    must reading

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