![]() ![]() Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. ![]() Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Jefferson 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.” An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic. ![]()
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