Margo Jefferson - Negroland A Memoir - 2015 [EN]

"Negroland by Margo Jefferson" is a Unknown title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (7.8 MB). Written by Margo Jefferson. The book spans approximately 207 pages with 64,626 words. 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 ...