{"id":42616,"date":"2015-09-09T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42616"},"modified":"2015-09-09T15:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:30:45","slug":"negroland-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42616","title":{"rendered":"Negroland: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/book\/86914\/negroland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Negroland: A Memoir<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/imprint\/pantheon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pantheon<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-08<br \/>\n256 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0307378453<br \/>\neBook ISBN:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Margo_Jefferson\" target=\"_blank\">Margo Jefferson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/book\/86914\/negroland\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/images\/dyn\/cover\/?source=9780307378453&amp;width=450&amp;alternate=images%2Fdyn%2Fcover%2Fno_cover_kdd.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac\u2014here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author\u2019s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both.<\/p>\n<p>Born in upper-crust black <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chicago\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>\u2014her father was for years head of pediatrics at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Provident_Hospital_(Chicago)\" target=\"_blank\">Provident<\/a>, at the time the nation\u2019s oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite\u2014Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination_based_on_skin_color\" target=\"_blank\">blue-vein society<\/a>. Since the nineteenth century they have stood apart, these inhabitants of Negroland, \u201ca small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments\u2014the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of postracial America\u2014Jefferson 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>(With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negroland: A Memoir Pantheon 2015-09-08 256 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0307378453 eBook ISBN: Margo Jefferson At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac\u2014here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author\u2019s rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[20967,2121],"class_list":["post-42616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-margo-jefferson","tag-pantheon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42618,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42616\/revisions\/42618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}