The distinction between “Negro,” which Jefferson thinks is a “word of wonders, glorious and terrible,” and “nigger,” which appears only a handful of times in her memoir Negroland, signifies the tenuous division between the black elite and the black masses. In Negroland, that “small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty,” the black elite may try to . 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.” Margo Jefferson was born in into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite/5(). Margo Jefferson's Negroland is a memoir of growing up in s Chicago as a member of the "Talented Tenth" or the "Third Race"—upper-middle-class Black people whose very successes made them all the more conscious of race, class, and the visible performance of respectability. Jefferson's prose is cool and crisp and consciously analytical, sometimes wry, sometimes rueful; she shies away /5.
― Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir. 15 likes. Like "Being an Other, in America, teaches you to imagine what can't imagine you." ― Margo Jefferson, Negroland. 13 likes. Like "Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! 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." Margo Jefferson was born in into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite.
Negroland by Margo Jefferson review – life in the black upper class A captivating memoir on the distinction between white and black privilege and how the black power movement brought on a crisis. The distinction between “Negro,” which Jefferson thinks is a “word of wonders, glorious and terrible,” and “nigger,” which appears only a handful of times in her memoir Negroland, signifies the tenuous division between the black elite and the black masses. In Negroland, that “small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty,” the black elite may try to separate themselves, but they pay a high price for their isolation. Margo Jefferson's Negroland is a memoir of growing up in s Chicago as a member of the "Talented Tenth" or the "Third Race"—upper-middle-class Black people whose very successes made them all the more conscious of race, class, and the visible performance of respectability. Jefferson's prose is cool and crisp and consciously analytical, sometimes wry, sometimes rueful; she shies away from the more lurid sharing of intimacies that characterises other memoirs.
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