Margo Jefferson Negroland (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: NegrolandCondition: NewEAN: 9781783783397ISBN: 9781783783397Publisher: Granta BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 12/29/2016Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 197gAuthor: Margo JeffersonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: A MemoirISBN-10: 1783783397Description: 'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the limits and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. 'Negroland is a sharp-eyed cultural commentary on an era of America that has often been too simply told' Aminatta Forna, Guardian 'Jefferson writes with piercing clarity of a childhood which was full of love and opportunity at home, but also saturated by contradictions, confusions and a racism which corrodes, like rust, to the heart's core' Observer 'Utterly compelling... a remarkable achievement' Sunday TimesCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyTopic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences, HistoryRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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