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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
ISBN-10
1504681568
ISBN-13
9781504681568
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221046957
Product Key Features
Author
Margo Jefferson
Format
CD, CD Standard Audio Format
Language
English
Additional Product Features
Running Time
479
Read by
Robin Miles
Date of Publication
01/12/2015
Contained Items Statement
7 Audio Cds
Subject
Biography: General
Imprint
Blackstone Audiobooks
Country of Publication
United States
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