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Title Negroland : a memoir / Margo Jefferson.
Author Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, [2015]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  B JEFFERSON    Check Shelves
 Washington Park  B JEFFERSON    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
text rdacontent
unmediated rdamedia
volume rdacarrier
Summary A highly personal meditation on race, sex, and American culture traces the author's upbringing and education in upper-class African-American circles against a backdrop of the Civil Rights era and its contradictory aftermath. NjBwBT
Subject Jefferson, Margo, 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Race identity -- Biography.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Biography.
Jefferson family.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes -- Biography.
African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
ISBN 9780307378453 (hardback) : $25.00
0307378454 (hardback)