Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

Negroland: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

248 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir race emotional informative reflective slow-paced

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The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certa...

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reflective 83%
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