Negroland : a memoir
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Miles, Robin, narrator.
Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015].
Format
Audiobook CD
Edition
Unabridged
Status
Port Angeles - Talking Books
AUDBK 305.896 JEFFERS
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AUDBK 305.896 JEFFERS
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Copies
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Port Angeles - Talking Books | AUDBK 305.896 JEFFERS | Available |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Audiobooks.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Audiobooks.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
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Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015].
Edition
Unabridged
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Robin Miles.
Description
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.