{"product_id":"negroland","title":"Negroland","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times: Dwight Garner's Best Books of 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post: 10 Best Books of 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times: 31 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire: Best Books of 2015\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair: Best Book Gifts of 2015\u003cbr\u003eTIME Best Books of 2015\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac--here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation's oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite--Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society. Since the nineteenth century they have stood apart, these inhabitants of Negroland, \"a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments--the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of postracial America--Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heart-wrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e(With 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.)","brand":"Pantheon Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50808931975400,"sku":"9780307378453","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/9539\/3512\/files\/imageloader_868efc98-f8f4-4ce7-b1a9-95445e47a3e4.jpg?v=1790304673","url":"https:\/\/kuumba-47muwsn1.myshopify.com\/products\/negroland","provider":"Kuumba","version":"1.0","type":"link"}