{"product_id":"negroland-a-memoir-9780307473431","title":"Negroland: A Memoir","description":"\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.\" \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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe winner of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Margo Jefferson was for years a book and arts critic for \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has appeared in, among other publications, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eNegroland\u003c\/i\u003e, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eOn Michael Jackson\u003c\/i\u003e and is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50662143590674,"sku":"9780307473431","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_45b88236-535a-4676-b8c2-eb4deb8208dc.jpg?v=1733513813","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/negroland-a-memoir-9780307473431","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}