{"product_id":"negroland-a-memoir-1","title":"Negroland: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, 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 to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 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.\" Reckoning with the strictures 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. Aware as it is of heart-wrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance.\"--De l'éditeur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Granta Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781783783397\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.50","offer_id":47916995805361,"sku":"SB-1783783397-C3","price":1.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.00","offer_id":47916995838129,"sku":"SB-1783783397-C4","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1783783397.jpg?v=1789678659","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/negroland-a-memoir-1","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}