Negroland

'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the limits 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. Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. 'Negroland is a sharp-eyed cultural commentary on an era of America that has often been too simply told' Aminatta Forna, Guardian 'Jefferson writes with piercing clarity of a childhood which was full of love and opportunity at home, but also saturated by contradictions, confusions and a racism which corrodes, like rust, to the heart's core' Observer 'Utterly compelling... a remarkable achievement' Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Margo Jefferson, Margot Jefferson, Jefferson Margo
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2017
• EAN: 9781783783397
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-339-7
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Ethnic Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Memoirs, Autobiography: historical, political & military, History of the Americas, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Black & Asian Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional