Author: Margo Jefferson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101870648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
NATIONAL 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 Jefferson 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.” Margo 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. It 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.” Jefferson 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.
Negroland
Author: Margo Jefferson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101870648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
NATIONAL 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 Jefferson 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.” Margo 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. It 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.” Jefferson 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.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101870648
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
NATIONAL 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 Jefferson 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.” Margo 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. It 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.” Jefferson 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.
The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781718861305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The negroes in negroland; the negroes in America; and negroes generally. Also, the several races of white men, considered as the involuntary and predestined supplanters of the black races.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781718861305
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The negroes in negroland; the negroes in America; and negroes generally. Also, the several races of white men, considered as the involuntary and predestined supplanters of the black races.
The Negroes in Negroland
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally.
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517449384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Originally published in 1868 by a northern publisher, this volume is a collection of extremely archaic and ignorant ideas on Africans, African life and the negroes and negro community in general within the United States.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781517449384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Originally published in 1868 by a northern publisher, this volume is a collection of extremely archaic and ignorant ideas on Africans, African life and the negroes and negro community in general within the United States.
The Negroes in Negroland
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Negroes in Negroland, the Negroes in America, and Negroes Generally
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Negroes in Negroland; The Negroes in America: And Negroes Generally.: Also, the Several Races of White Men, Considered as the Involuntary and Pred
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519605351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Negroes In Negroland; The Negroes In America; And Negroes Generally.: Also, The Several Races Of White Men, Considered As The Involuntary And Predestined Supplanters Of The Black Races
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519605351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Negroes In Negroland; The Negroes In America; And Negroes Generally.: Also, The Several Races Of White Men, Considered As The Involuntary And Predestined Supplanters Of The Black Races
The Negroes in Negroland
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337644819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337644819
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Negro
Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Negroes in Negroland; The Negroes in America; And Negroes Generally
Author: Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243632152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780243632152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description