Negroland a memoir
(CD)
Author
Contributors
Miles, Robin, narrator.
Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, [2015].
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Fort Morgan Public Library - AUDIOBOOK | CD BIO Jefferson, M. | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Audiobooks.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Audiobooks.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago Region.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
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Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, [2015].
Format
CD
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Robin Miles.
Description
"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."--,Provided by publisher.
Local note
MicroMarketing, 2016.
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jefferson, M., & Miles, R. (2015). Negroland: a memoir . Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947- and Robin, Miles. 2015. Negroland: A Memoir. Blackstone Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947- and Robin, Miles. Negroland: A Memoir Blackstone Audio, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, and Robin Miles. Negroland: A Memoir Blackstone Audio, 2015.
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