@article{745093,
      author = {Jefferson, Margo,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/745093},
      title = {Negroland : a memoir /},
      abstract = {"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative,  celebratory and elegiac, 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 to distance itself from whites and the black  generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both.  Born in 1947 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 post-racial  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  illustrations.)"--},
      recid = {745093},
      pages = {248 pages :},
}