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. "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. Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson Book Bib IDÄ«ook, Online - Google Books
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