{"product_id":"negroland-a-memoir-9780307473431-b","title":"Negroland: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Margo Jefferson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cultural \u0026amp; Regional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: \"I call it Negroland,\" she writes, \"because I still find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMargo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs--a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and \"the masses of Negros,\" and where the motto was \"Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments--the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45028756947095,"sku":"9780307473431","price":1343.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780307473431.webp?v=1767633431","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/negroland-a-memoir-9780307473431-b","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}